The takedown of Kiwi Farms is basically another 9/11, Gender critical transphobes explain

The regulars on Ovarit, the Reddit-esque haven for some of the internet’s nastiest TERFs, are having a normal one today, by which I mean they’re comparing the (hopefully permanent) takedown of doxing site Kiwi Farms to 9/11.

According to poster BondiBlue, Kiwi Farms losing the services of not just Cloudflare but their Russian host

does not bode well for freedom of speech on the Internet, or in general, and will only serve to embolden far more authoritarian regimes. This little bird was the canary in the coal mine and now it’s dead.

“This little bird” drove people to suicide, and mocked them after their deaths.

I know I will always remember where I was when the 9/11 of the Internet happened. And once again, I feel like the terrorists have won.

Jesus F. Christ.

In a followup comment, BondiBlue compared the Kiwi Farms shutdown to yet another infamous historical tragedy — Pearl Harbor.

They literally broke the Internet for their own selfish purposes. September 5, 2022, a date that will live in infamy.

Other Ovarit commenters offered similarly melodramatic responses to the news.

Hontrapoints compared the situation with … psychiatric abuse?

I … believe that we will eventually come to see this as a dark time in history and view it with the same retrospective horror as we view the lobotimizations of the previous century.

According to someone called Universechild, meanwhile

I’ve never known such a “oppressed minority” wielding so much power before 🙄…

If KF goes for good, you know they will be coming for any exclusively female networks next – they can’t stand us having anything of our own.

Before long the internet will be an echo chamber for the stunning and brave – the rest of us will be forced underground in reality, no real way to network globally without the supreme leader TRA’s watchful eye.

I’m done with this clown world.

“Clown world” is an alt-right catchphrase; I wonder where Universechild picked it up?

Some commenters reached almost QAnon levels of delusion. SakuraBlossoms complained that

Sites that have let people share CHILD PORN over and over and over again don’t get taken down. White supremacist sites where terrorist attacks have been planned don’t get taken down. But a site that makes fun of fetishistic men and pedophiles and breaks no laws can’t be allowed to stand! How much more obvious can it be that fetishistic men and pedophiles are the ones who hold all the power, and protecting their own ilk is far more important to them than any of the other issues they pretend to care about?

BondiBlue also thought the problem was men in drag — sorry, “fat eunuchs in drag.”

It’s about fat eunuchs in drag — very, very powerful fat eunuchs in drag — having unfettered access to groom kids for their own personal desires, and nobody being allowed to talk about it.

That, I think, is why I’m close to tears this morning. Not simply because a shitposting site got banhammered. But about why and who’s behind it and what’s coming next. I wouldn’t care about any of this if kids weren’t the target. …

This is about kids dammit. This is about a multi-gazillion-dollar power structure that wants kids to play with in the worst, most unfathomable of ways. They want them on puberty blockers so that they never grow up. And they’re getting away with it because everyone who speaks out has been deemed a MAGA bigot and unpersoned. Because we care about kids. …There’s big money in this and it’s all about having a steady supply of kids.

Uh, citations needed, Bondi.

I feel so sick the more I think about it.

Yeah, that’s what ludicrous conspiracy theories do to your brain.

There were some commenters willing to talk about a few of Kiwi Farm’s more unsavory aspects — its casual and omnipresent racism and sexism. But most agreed they could look past these little flaws because it was such a bastion of “free speech.” By which they meant that their favorite kind of bigotry — anti-trans bigotry — was welcomed as well.

Birds of a feather, as they say.

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