"One lesson is that while repeatedly disrupting digital infrastructure might significantly lessen the activity of online communities, it may just displace them, which has been also noted in previous work [90]. Campaigners can also get bored after a few weeks, while the disrupted community is more determined to recover their gathering place.
As with the reemergence and relocation of extremist forums like 8CHAN and DAILY STORMER, KIWI FARMS is now back online. This supports the argument that truly disrupting online active platforms can be very challenging, much like the shortterm impact of shutting down cybercrime marketplaces, DDoS-for-hire services and other security threats combining efforts of both law enforcement and industry interventions such as botnets and fraudulent ad networks when botmaster is capable of momentarily deploying new modules to counteract the takedown.
Deplatforming alone may be insufficient to disperse or suppress an unpleasant online community in the long term, even when concerted action is taken by a series of tech firms over several months. It may weaken a community for a while by fragmenting their traffic and activity, and scare away casual observers, but it may also make core group members even more determined and recruit newcomers via the Streisand effect, whereby attempts at censorship can be self-defeating."
"One lesson is that while repeatedly disrupting digital infrastructure might significantly lessen the activity of online communities, it may just displace them, which has been also noted in previous work [90]. Campaigners can also get bored after a few weeks, while the disrupted community is more determined to recover their gathering place.
As with the reemergence and relocation of extremist forums like 8CHAN and DAILY STORMER, KIWI FARMS is now back online. This supports the argument that truly disrupting online active platforms can be very challenging, much like the shortterm impact of shutting down cybercrime marketplaces, DDoS-for-hire services and other security threats combining efforts of both law enforcement and industry interventions such as botnets and fraudulent ad networks when botmaster is capable of momentarily deploying new modules to counteract the takedown.
Deplatforming alone may be insufficient to disperse or suppress an unpleasant online community in the long term, even when concerted action is taken by a series of tech firms over several months. It may weaken a community for a while by fragmenting their traffic and activity, and scare away casual observers, but it may also make core group members even more determined and recruit newcomers via the Streisand effect, whereby attempts at censorship can be self-defeating."
Lol. Lmao even.
Kiwi farms isn't more extremist than Reddit or Bluesky. Both of those platforms are able to get away with worse. Remember Mikayla Raines?