KiwiFarms turned Hunter Biden into a lowcow with easily accessible information for the normies. The clown circus is just a flimsy pretext to nuke KiwiFarms before the midterm elections. They've also been busy purging Reddit on the lowkey for the last year and a half in preparation for the elections and I'm sure many other platforms, including Twitter.
Elections mean hundreds of millions of dollars. In the case of Pelosi personally it's tens of millions. Elections are big business. They make politicians rich. They'll do anything to get elected.
I tried to make a post about this yesterday but it never seemed to publish.
Nick Rekieta doesn't seem to be championing their cause this time as he's too busy getting drunk and getting in the muck over lawyer YouTube and Twitter drama.
Yes he sits on livestreams all day long instead of making edited/scripted videos which get straight to the point.
IDK if he practices, because whenever I do oral arguments, I need to write out relatively tight scripts since the time limits are pretty strict. So everything I do is scripted.
Pretty much why I dropped him. Too much getting rolled up in drama for superchat money, more interested in stretching things out than just dispensing based law pills, and catering to that really weird unbreaded shit.
Pretty much why I dropped him. Too much getting rolled up in drama for superchat money, more interested in stretching things out than just dispensing based law pills, and catering to that really weird unbreaded shit.
Yeah if you want based/accurate legal takes I do text posts on the topics sometimes.
Despite whatever his initial intentions, he embraced the role of grifter entirely. Now the only thing that distinguishes him from regular drama commentators is the ability to parse a legal document.
And that only lets him get a slight headstart on the competition who get someone else to do it for them, and he usually wastes that on the slowest streams known to man.
No offense to small town lawyers, because I think they're very important, but Nick lives in a small town in Minnesota with a population of less than 2,000. The whole county has a population of like 40k.
I always assumed he was basically a traffic ticket, misdemeanor, minor-legal-needs solo practictioner. And I doubt he's practiced in years. Why would he when he has an easier and better paying job?
He went to William Mitchell (today Mitchell Hamline). Again, no offense to practical schools because they're necessary and important, but it's a tier 4 school (admittedly does have one SCOTUS justice alumnus) that is not in the business of training Big Law and major stakes practitioners.
I doubt I've seen more than a cumulative 10 minutes of Nick, but I would take his legal opinions with a heavy grain of salt.
Most of his legal analysis comes in the form of his live play-by-play commentary on ongoing trials. And for that, you really don't need anything much more than an understanding of the rules of evidence and procedure for the relevant jurisdiction. So in that regard, his background is more than adequate and his legal analysis is fine.
He rarely covers other stuff, like major SCOTUS decisions, and for those I would agree with you on taking his analysis on those with a grain of salt.
I still really like Nick, but he has succumbed to the same stay-at-home-Dad disease as Viva Frei did when he quit his law practice and achieved YouTube stardom/self-sufficiency.
They complain constantly about being run off their feet and never "have any time". But they are actually prioritizing picking up their kids from school or social activities over their actual primary job of creating content and streaming. The womanly daytime chores come first (despite them both having wives), their careers and the audience come second.
Rekieta has missed over half of the Darrell Brooks trial (which he admits he hates) because he doesn't stream during the daytime if his kids need rides to their homeschool social activities on a given day.
It's great that Rekieta and Viva are good fathers involved in their kids' lives, but they gone so far with the Work-From-Home thing that chaffeuring takes precedence over actually doing their freelance jobs.
Then they have the gall to constantly complain about their hectic schedules to their audiences who simp for them and could only dream of such flexibility and luxury.
I still like Viva too, though as a Canadian I've drastically scaled back from watching his content since his surreptitious move to Florida that I took personally.
He's just not as interesting to me as a commentator opining on Canadian topics from afar.
I can't stand Barnes. Nobody should take his legal analysis at face value. Robert's big problem is that he will freely flow from stating what the law is with what he thinks the law ought to be without differentiating the two. And so anybody who is not familiar with what the law actually is in an area could be duped into believing that he's stating what the law actually says.
Viva's milquetoast Canadian personality combined with his ignorance of American law means that he almost never pushes back on Robert's legal takes, no matter how retarded they are.
rofl, that's practically ALL of Youtube. Have you ever seen a TheQuartering video? They're always 10+ minutes to game the algorithm, while he only has enough commentary for 2 - 5 minutes, tops. Or Tim Pool? Don't get me started on that guy.
Kia2 is the edgiest place on the Internet I post. I've browsed Kiwifarms, but I've never posted.
Shit like this is radicalizing me. IF you had asked me 5 years ago if I would have ever supported Kiwifarms, I would have said fuck no. If Kiwifarms is breaking the law, fine, go after them. We have laws for a reason.
Oh I know, I started following several threads around the time of the alleged byuu suicide (which is still sketchy as hell).
I have run across at least one thread where a farmer was driving by someone's house and posting pictures (Spoony). That thread had several instances of "people touching the poop." So that's ... not cool in my book.
I do agree that the reputation FAR exceeds the reality. Mostly it's just posting the horrible things lolcows do and say online. Their own words are really worse than anything else!
Null then adds "These are the people who rule over you and get to decide what you are and are not adult enough to read on the Internet. P.S. I'm working on something special that will piss a lot of people off. Not likely to be done today, but this has not been an unproductive Monday."
Every transgender communist above a certain age used to be someone who made a few too many nasty rape jokes online. Online veterans here know exactly the type, I don't know a better adjective for them than "goony" as in Something Awful.
A Rouge is also worth an extra point if your punt (or missed field goal) clears the back of the end zone (which is 20 yards wide, not ten) in Canadian football.
The ball is bigger. There are only 3 downs. The field is 110 yards with 20 yard end zones. Receivers can be in motion before the snap.
All the quarterbacks are American. And no one in Canada gives a shit about the sport except a few pockets on the Prairies.
The old joke was that the league had 8 teams but two of them were named Roughriders. That actually doesn't hold true anymore because one of the franchises went bankrupt in the 90s.
For both AUP violations as well as increased risk to Zayo's own infrastructure (both cybersecurity as well as potential volumetric DDoS attacks against Kiki Farms & our own infrastructure), this customer should be informed of AUP violations & terminated immediately.
Voxility has blackholed the IP serving the 503 error page for the Kiwi Farms explaining how large ISPs are censoring the Internet. This was done at direct request of Liz Fong-Jones and without any explanation.
OK, who the hell IS this bathtub-drug freak that has so much fucking power?
New post from Null, presented without comment (except that I didn't realize how few big ISPs there were):
I am doing two things right now:
I am looking at strengthening our network for the return to clearnet.
I am going to replicate the backend so that we can never be knocked off Tor again. This is something I can do on my own. I should have done it sooner but I thought I had more time.
The reality of a Tier 1 provider like Zayo censoring the Internet is very dire and I hope you will pay attention.
In the world of ISPs, there are very few real players. There are 15 tier 1 networks in existence. There are many more ISPs, but they generally all connect to a Tier 1 network.
Additionally, there are even fewer ISPs which provide DDoS protection. These companies (Path, Telia, Voxility, Zayo) are more politically charged than a normal ISP. Without them, should you manage to peer, you are not on the Internet if you cannot handle DDoS attacks yourself. DDoS mitigation has never been made a core part of the Internet, and I believe that weakness is deliberately encouraged by governments, as the US government routinely utilizes DDoS attacks to censor networks like Tor.
A DDoS attack can be between 1Gbps and 100Gbps or higher. A 10Gbps line is about $700/mo. This scales pretty linearly, with some bulk discounts. Not all routers can handle 10Gbps, and few routers can handle 100Gbps. Those are also thousands of dollars each. Then you actually have to find a way to scrub the attack bandwidth.
Meanwhile, we are not allowed to conduct ordinary business. Without reason and without appeal, I cannot process credit cards. We would easily make five times what do now if I could simply charge people for services like any other website. That is not possible because of the financial censorship, and as a result I am very limited in what I can realistically afford to do.
So, ultimately, we are reliant on a few companies to continue tolerating us and one of the best ways to be tolerated is to have an established business relationship. If you've been at one datacenter talking to the same people for 20 years, as is often the case in the industry, they are likely to handle things diplomatically. If you are dropped in their lap last weekend like a pot of boiling water, they are unlikely to.
Even the companies that do want to help are often underneath companies that do not want to help. The datacenter Worldstream in the Netherlands has blocked us, and thus any company that operates out of Worldstream cannot support us.
I do like my website, and after spending time on other communities I know that nothing will ever replace it if the circus of sex pests and psychologically disturbed slacktivists have their way.
I also am very sad to see these state of affairs. Without breaking the law, without piracy, and without incident (like Tarrant and Jan 6 with 8chan), we have been censored at some of the highest reaches of the Internet. A handful of very mentally ill people sending nasty emails, threatening the families of datacenter employees, and calling in favors with friends in high places have very effectively snapped the neck of the interconnected world.
Every year the diversity of websites online shrinks, and the centralization of services grow. Those who should want to fight a tech oligarchy instead cheer it on and help consolidate its power. I am helplessly watching the Internet, and the freedom it has brought our entire species, die a slow death. It hurts. The Internet is being murdered by shortsighted parasites, and they will never realize how big a mistake it is until there's no going back.
KiwiFarms turned Hunter Biden into a lowcow with easily accessible information for the normies. The clown circus is just a flimsy pretext to nuke KiwiFarms before the midterm elections. They've also been busy purging Reddit on the lowkey for the last year and a half in preparation for the elections and I'm sure many other platforms, including Twitter.
Elections mean hundreds of millions of dollars. In the case of Pelosi personally it's tens of millions. Elections are big business. They make politicians rich. They'll do anything to get elected.
Started in earnest in 2018 actually
I tried to make a post about this yesterday but it never seemed to publish.
Nick Rekieta doesn't seem to be championing their cause this time as he's too busy getting drunk and getting in the muck over lawyer YouTube and Twitter drama.
Nick Rekieta really seems to provide low Information Per Second.
The guy spends 8 hours discussing 1 story very slowly. Its sad. The guy could cover so much more
Yes he sits on livestreams all day long instead of making edited/scripted videos which get straight to the point.
IDK if he practices, because whenever I do oral arguments, I need to write out relatively tight scripts since the time limits are pretty strict. So everything I do is scripted.
He does YouTube because he hates being a lawyer.
Pretty much why I dropped him. Too much getting rolled up in drama for superchat money, more interested in stretching things out than just dispensing based law pills, and catering to that really weird unbreaded shit.
It's a pretty shitty job in a lot of ways.
Yeah if you want based/accurate legal takes I do text posts on the topics sometimes.
Despite whatever his initial intentions, he embraced the role of grifter entirely. Now the only thing that distinguishes him from regular drama commentators is the ability to parse a legal document.
And that only lets him get a slight headstart on the competition who get someone else to do it for them, and he usually wastes that on the slowest streams known to man.
No offense to small town lawyers, because I think they're very important, but Nick lives in a small town in Minnesota with a population of less than 2,000. The whole county has a population of like 40k.
I always assumed he was basically a traffic ticket, misdemeanor, minor-legal-needs solo practictioner. And I doubt he's practiced in years. Why would he when he has an easier and better paying job?
He went to William Mitchell (today Mitchell Hamline). Again, no offense to practical schools because they're necessary and important, but it's a tier 4 school (admittedly does have one SCOTUS justice alumnus) that is not in the business of training Big Law and major stakes practitioners.
I doubt I've seen more than a cumulative 10 minutes of Nick, but I would take his legal opinions with a heavy grain of salt.
Most of his legal analysis comes in the form of his live play-by-play commentary on ongoing trials. And for that, you really don't need anything much more than an understanding of the rules of evidence and procedure for the relevant jurisdiction. So in that regard, his background is more than adequate and his legal analysis is fine.
He rarely covers other stuff, like major SCOTUS decisions, and for those I would agree with you on taking his analysis on those with a grain of salt.
I still really like Nick, but he has succumbed to the same stay-at-home-Dad disease as Viva Frei did when he quit his law practice and achieved YouTube stardom/self-sufficiency.
They complain constantly about being run off their feet and never "have any time". But they are actually prioritizing picking up their kids from school or social activities over their actual primary job of creating content and streaming. The womanly daytime chores come first (despite them both having wives), their careers and the audience come second.
Rekieta has missed over half of the Darrell Brooks trial (which he admits he hates) because he doesn't stream during the daytime if his kids need rides to their homeschool social activities on a given day.
It's great that Rekieta and Viva are good fathers involved in their kids' lives, but they gone so far with the Work-From-Home thing that chaffeuring takes precedence over actually doing their freelance jobs.
Then they have the gall to constantly complain about their hectic schedules to their audiences who simp for them and could only dream of such flexibility and luxury.
I like Viva Frei. But holy **** that guy needs a producer. (Or train his kid to be a producer like Bret Weinstein)
The guy is incompetent AF with his sound/video. I just skip to the part with Robert Barnes
I still like Viva too, though as a Canadian I've drastically scaled back from watching his content since his surreptitious move to Florida that I took personally.
He's just not as interesting to me as a commentator opining on Canadian topics from afar.
Yep. Hard to take someone who took their skin out of the game seriously.
I can't stand Barnes. Nobody should take his legal analysis at face value. Robert's big problem is that he will freely flow from stating what the law is with what he thinks the law ought to be without differentiating the two. And so anybody who is not familiar with what the law actually is in an area could be duped into believing that he's stating what the law actually says.
Viva's milquetoast Canadian personality combined with his ignorance of American law means that he almost never pushes back on Robert's legal takes, no matter how retarded they are.
Viva is Jewish and a stalwart defender of genital mutilation, so he is compromised and can't be trusted.
rofl, that's practically ALL of Youtube. Have you ever seen a TheQuartering video? They're always 10+ minutes to game the algorithm, while he only has enough commentary for 2 - 5 minutes, tops. Or Tim Pool? Don't get me started on that guy.
Yeah I can’t stand Tim Pool. Too slow and always covering his ass.
Kia2 is the edgiest place on the Internet I post. I've browsed Kiwifarms, but I've never posted.
Shit like this is radicalizing me. IF you had asked me 5 years ago if I would have ever supported Kiwifarms, I would have said fuck no. If Kiwifarms is breaking the law, fine, go after them. We have laws for a reason.
I'm sick of deplatforming as political weapon.
I can promise you that KF is barely edgier than here. Much like /b/, its reputation far exceeds its reality.
People just see the word nigger, a few shocking pictures, and suddenly its a den of evil.
Oh I know, I started following several threads around the time of the alleged byuu suicide (which is still sketchy as hell).
I have run across at least one thread where a farmer was driving by someone's house and posting pictures (Spoony). That thread had several instances of "people touching the poop." So that's ... not cool in my book.
I do agree that the reputation FAR exceeds the reality. Mostly it's just posting the horrible things lolcows do and say online. Their own words are really worse than anything else!
https://archive.ph/AXfZp
An update, with a squinty image ( https://archive.ph/AXfZp/34d9673a885b272d98ca62745e0bff4a5c557b8a.jpg ) in which someone basically accuses "Liz Fong-Jones" of being chummy with pedos and being WAY too into rape fantasy.
Null then adds "These are the people who rule over you and get to decide what you are and are not adult enough to read on the Internet. P.S. I'm working on something special that will piss a lot of people off. Not likely to be done today, but this has not been an unproductive Monday."
Every transgender communist above a certain age used to be someone who made a few too many nasty rape jokes online. Online veterans here know exactly the type, I don't know a better adjective for them than "goony" as in Something Awful.
What's funny is that the retard had a massive hate boner for "rape jokes" despite openly fetishizing said illegal act.
FIFY, since he cut his cock off.
ADTRW clearly has had a profound affect on the entire planet. Terrifying.
Original of squinttext: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053930
Thank you.
Rouge is what they wear when they make the dress go spinny and record it for social media asspats.
Because it's totally not a fetish or anything.
Yeah, it's a notoriously common typo and spelling error.
But never not funny.
The CEO of Rumble bangs on endlessly about free speech and how he's building a censorship free alternative to AWS/Google called Rumble Cloud.
Time to see if he puts his money where his mouth is. I suspect he'd shit his pants and run away, though.
I think you meant "rogue". Rouge means red in French.
In the past few days I've seen that exact misspelling three times. Strange.
A Rouge is also worth an extra point if your punt (or missed field goal) clears the back of the end zone (which is 20 yards wide, not ten) in Canadian football.
There's a Canadian football?
Sure is.
The ball is bigger. There are only 3 downs. The field is 110 yards with 20 yard end zones. Receivers can be in motion before the snap.
All the quarterbacks are American. And no one in Canada gives a shit about the sport except a few pockets on the Prairies.
The old joke was that the league had 8 teams but two of them were named Roughriders. That actually doesn't hold true anymore because one of the franchises went bankrupt in the 90s.
Roughnecks may be more appropriate for the Canadian prairie these days
I think it's a running joke.
It's extremely common in RPG and video game forums
https://archive.ph/kE05Z#selection-6717.152-6717.157
Kiki Farms, huh?
At least the Chris-Chan wiki at Sonichu.com is back up again ironically.
OK, who the hell IS this bathtub-drug freak that has so much fucking power?
New post from Null, presented without comment (except that I didn't realize how few big ISPs there were):
I am doing two things right now:
The reality of a Tier 1 provider like Zayo censoring the Internet is very dire and I hope you will pay attention.
In the world of ISPs, there are very few real players. There are 15 tier 1 networks in existence. There are many more ISPs, but they generally all connect to a Tier 1 network.
Additionally, there are even fewer ISPs which provide DDoS protection. These companies (Path, Telia, Voxility, Zayo) are more politically charged than a normal ISP. Without them, should you manage to peer, you are not on the Internet if you cannot handle DDoS attacks yourself. DDoS mitigation has never been made a core part of the Internet, and I believe that weakness is deliberately encouraged by governments, as the US government routinely utilizes DDoS attacks to censor networks like Tor.
A DDoS attack can be between 1Gbps and 100Gbps or higher. A 10Gbps line is about $700/mo. This scales pretty linearly, with some bulk discounts. Not all routers can handle 10Gbps, and few routers can handle 100Gbps. Those are also thousands of dollars each. Then you actually have to find a way to scrub the attack bandwidth.
Meanwhile, we are not allowed to conduct ordinary business. Without reason and without appeal, I cannot process credit cards. We would easily make five times what do now if I could simply charge people for services like any other website. That is not possible because of the financial censorship, and as a result I am very limited in what I can realistically afford to do.
So, ultimately, we are reliant on a few companies to continue tolerating us and one of the best ways to be tolerated is to have an established business relationship. If you've been at one datacenter talking to the same people for 20 years, as is often the case in the industry, they are likely to handle things diplomatically. If you are dropped in their lap last weekend like a pot of boiling water, they are unlikely to.
Even the companies that do want to help are often underneath companies that do not want to help. The datacenter Worldstream in the Netherlands has blocked us, and thus any company that operates out of Worldstream cannot support us.
I do like my website, and after spending time on other communities I know that nothing will ever replace it if the circus of sex pests and psychologically disturbed slacktivists have their way.
I also am very sad to see these state of affairs. Without breaking the law, without piracy, and without incident (like Tarrant and Jan 6 with 8chan), we have been censored at some of the highest reaches of the Internet. A handful of very mentally ill people sending nasty emails, threatening the families of datacenter employees, and calling in favors with friends in high places have very effectively snapped the neck of the interconnected world.
Every year the diversity of websites online shrinks, and the centralization of services grow. Those who should want to fight a tech oligarchy instead cheer it on and help consolidate its power. I am helplessly watching the Internet, and the freedom it has brought our entire species, die a slow death. It hurts. The Internet is being murdered by shortsighted parasites, and they will never realize how big a mistake it is until there's no going back.