The Kiwi in the Coalmine, Part II
The second part of our report on the deplatforming of Kiwi Farms by trans-activists led by trans-identifying online personality Keffals
Breaking the Internet
Usually, taking a website offline doesn’t really delete it from existence altogether — that is, until the war on Kiwi Farms set a new precedent that could prove dangerously ominous for how the Internet operates in the future, especially in regimes such as China, Russia, or Iran. Essentially, however, even in ostensible “liberal democracies,” the Internet is on the verge of being governed like it would be in an openly authoritarian state. Even First Amendment protections in the U.S., for instance, are significantly weakened, if an angry mob can use the one-note media that thinks and acts in lockstep, to bully the handful of operators of centralized online infrastructure into shunning dissident players as the mob sees fit.
On Labor Day, September 5, 2022, Moon posted to Telegram that the people trying to take down Kiwi Farms had gone so far as to threaten the very root of its operations on an unprecedented scale:
I own IP addresses. Our IP allocation is from APNIC. APNIC is one of the 5 private companies which allocate Internet resources around the world. APNIC happens to be based out of Australia, which recently passed draconian censorship laws. There is an effort to get our RIR to revoke our allocation. This would be unprecedented in the history of the Internet, and considering China is in APNIC's region, an absolutely horrific standard which will echo throughout the upcoming decades. There is a non-zero chance of this happening.
It’s a lot of technical jargon, but essentially what he’s saying is that the enemies of this one website are urging a national government to seize and sanction its “digital real estate” like it was an entire country block. Treating it as though it was a site operated by ISIL or the Kremlin. And in doing this, they’re going to break the Internet1. Ironically, Xi and Putin would no doubt cheer this measure themselves. Think of what could be done to Taiwan or Hong Kong.
But that’s not all. This campaign is even subjecting Kiwi Farms to what the Romans once called a damnatio memoriae: salting the earth of its presence so that even a time capsule of its content cannot be found. That’s what trans-activists did when they persuaded the Internet Archive to blacklist it.2 They are going completely scorched earth to scrub everything once and for all.3
More importantly, they want to make it so that no small organization can host a service which threatens the cathedral. … There are no new groundbreakers online anymore because breaking ground in the new Internet's corporate parking lot is not allowed.
~Josh Moon
It probably should come as no surprise that some of the most militant trans-activists tend to also identify as being on the nominal far left.4 Keffals himself was a candidate for election representing the Communist Party of Canada, running in the 2018 Ontario provincial and 2019 federal elections. Online trans-activists often have the hammer and sickle (what I call the Soviet swastika, a symbol representing authoritarianism and hate) in their online handles, along with obligatory pronouns and the trans flag emoji. But beyond that, Joseph Stalin was well known for ordering his enemies airbrushed out of photographs5, and any record of their existence completely purged (along with the people themselves, of course). Essentially, that is what trans-activists are doing to Kiwi Farms, as a warning to others that anyone documenting the reality of trans-activism6 will also be “erased.”
(For the record, Keffals also volunteered for the New Democratic Party (NDP), formerly known as the Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (CCF), a Canadian left-of-center party that also gave up on its socialist economic left roots a long time ago for electoral expediency. It is now arguably a Canadian copycat of the woke-youth “Squad” wing of the U.S. Democratic Party. Interestingly enough, Keffals did not seem to mind engaging in capitalistic practices when he raised roughly $100,000 CAD for his “living expenses” on Go Fund Me from his easily duped fans. Perhaps when applied to him, the acronym NDP stands for “no damn principles.”)
Those who control the present, control the past. Those who control the past, control the future.
~George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
In fact, trans-activists have even managed to do this to their “former” selves as a form of “q*eer liberation,” successfully pressuring governments the world over to give them license to alter their birth certificates and other official paperwork, to purge their so-called “deadnames” from the public record. Trans-activism is thus a dangerous and Orwellian movement, demanding fealty to unreality. It is a nihilistic movement, a thanatophilic7 movement. It fetishizes misery, mutilation, and death.
And Kiwi Farms was one of the last bastions of sanity that defiantly declared that. Trans-activists not only shot the messenger; they burned down his house and took a contract out on anyone who ever knew him. Or supported him at all.
Where to from here?
Lest anyone think that the trans-activists’ movement that took on Kiwi Farms is satisfied to gloat about their coup and set down their weapons, I’m afraid that’s not the case. Within mere hours after Kiwi Farms was kicked off the “clear ‘net” and relegated to the “dark web” of the TOR network, trans-activists began rumbling about taking their tactics of subversion and infiltration to women’s forums who cheered on Kiwi Farms in its David vs. Goliath struggle. They named Mumsnet (a women’s forum based in the U.K.) and Ovarit (a board formed by women of the former Gender Critical subreddit after they were banned for daring to talk about the conflicts of interest between trans and gender ideology and women's rights).
If you don't want normal women … to visit this website, you should not censor them on every platform.
~Josh Moon
Others even began beating the drum to take down the Substack blogging platform, where numerous gender-critical writers have found a home and, in many cases, a (paying) audience. The attack on Kiwi Farms should thus be regarded as only the beginning of a massive war against the holdouts who dare challenge the demands of “the cathedral,” most of which are not as well-equipped to handle such attacks as Kiwi Farms had weathered over the course of nearly a decade.
As for Kiwi Farms itself, if and/or when it ultimately goes dark, Josh Moon has vowed to make the entirety of its content — all that stuff “the cathedral” wants to hide — available for download via BitTorrent for anyone who wishes to obtain it. He nevertheless has remained steadfastly committed to bringing back the site in some form, still hinting at the possibility of a revival as of September 8, 2022.
Therefore, all hope is not lost. Not as long as people find ways to speak out. To gather in person if possible, to protest, perhaps even to form an underground samizdat (secret press) apart from the watchful eyes of “the cathedral.” To read widely, get informed, and speak out.
First they came for Kiwi Farms, and I did not speak out because I was not a Kiwi Farmer. Then they came for me… and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Update: Since this article was written, the deplatforming of Kiwi Farm has expanded beyond the internet. This is Josh Moon’s latest Telegram post:
Lisa Bondi is the pen name of an introverted young writer and avid reader, who found radical feminism by way of Diagon Alley and Platform 9 3/4. A Mac Girl since her elementary years, when she isn't pursuing her offline passions for vintage console games and retro-computing, she's fighting against the Orwellian impulses of the Extremely Online, in hopes that the rest of the 21st century won't be like "1984".
For the full account of the saga from Josh Moon himself, see his official Kiwi Farms Telegram blog at t.me/kiwifarms. (Try clicking “Preview channel) if your browser tells you the web address is invalid.
Other articles covering this incident:
Shay Woulahan’s article Kiwis vs. Predator for feminist blog Reduxx
Corinna Cohn’s Substack article, where she laments the demise of honest investigative journalism and argues that Kiwi Farms has played a role in filling the void.
Jesse Singal’s Substack article:
This guest post on Graham Linehan’s Substack: Why Keffals really took down Kiwi Farms
Josh Moon broke down this technical explanation of the centralized architecture of the modern Web in an eerily prescient guest post for Zero Hedge from 2021, where he also praised Matthew Prince for his stated commitment to free speech. See Moon’s essay, Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet.
The notorious “crybully” Washington Post writer and self-appointed hall monitor of Internet behavior, Taylor Lorenz (best known for her hypocritical “doxing” exposé of the creator of Libs of Tik Tok), reportedly has a relative working in the higher-up echelons of the Internet Archive who would likely be able to pull some strings. This was chronicled on Kiwi Farms, but this Substack article has a detailed explanation of her family connections.
Speaking of cathedrals and nouveau religions with a lot to hide: The infamously litigious and secretive Church of Scientology was also successful in pressuring the Internet Archive to remove websites from those who have left the cult. See https://archive.ph/SH7MG (an archive of the Archive, in case the Archive is removed from the archives).
“Nominal” far left because it is unlikely that the socialist economic left would be supportive of a movement hatched by Ivy League professors, backed by multinational corporations, and which stands to generate massive profits for pharmaceutical companies and other parasites of the insatiable private sector. Marx himself might well have said that hormone replacement is the opiate of the people. But the socialist economic left in the West is about as neutered and castrated as the children fed to this machine. The “critical theorists” of the so-called “cultural” left, meanwhile, comprise and enable an authoritarian movement married to capitalism. This movement has nothing to do with, and is in fact seethingly hostile to, the grassroots working class.
See historical explainer at Rare Historical Photo, How Stalin’s propaganda machine erased people from photographs, 1922-1953.
The Soviets were also known for warping scientific fields to comport with their agenda, in much the same manner as critical theorists of the modern West have used the social sciences to overtake and corrupt the hard sciences, and to silence any disagreement as being “bigoted.” Though in practice, Lysenkoism was ostensibly about approaches to agriculture, Soviet ideologue Trofim Lysenko’s name eventually became synonymous with the corruption of scientific inquiry for political reasons. For analysis of the “new Lysenkoism,” see for example The Triumph of Trans Lysenkoism Rod Dreher in The American Conservative, or The Dawn of Medical Lysenkoism by James Lindsay in New Discourses.
Literally, “love of death.” From Thanatos, the name of the Greek god of death, and –philia, a root word meaning “intense affection” (cf. necrophilia, pedophilia, paraphilia). Not all –philias are necessarily bad (as bibliophiles or Francophiles will no doubt attest to), but gender ideology has come to reveal itself as a disturbing sexual fetish masquerading as a “civil rights movement.”
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