... What Has Come Before?
To recap for those who are unfamiliar with Kiwi Farms, it is a website set up to troll and harass the vulnerable online. Kiwi Farms recently had its main account,
@KiwiFarms, indefinitely suspended from Twitter (pre-suspension archive
here) after my intervention. This is unsurprising as the tagline was,
“Gossip and exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes”.
In my original article, I had seen some quotes on Encyclopaedia Dramatica in which Moon was said to have boasted of paedopilia, but I did not accept these serious allegations until I received a separate tip-off that Moon’s site contained child pornography. Rather than view or visit the URIs, which would be illegal, I contacted the hosting company and asked them to investigate. Having done so, they banned Moon.
Subsequently, several hosts in succession removed the site. One, ethical French company
Gandi.net told Moon that they had independently verified there was child pornography and it was so serious that he would not be given a second chance. A full size image of their exchange with Moon
is here.
Moon and his friends have repeatedly implied that Encyclopaedia Dramatica is an unreliable source. However, I have now checked and been able to verify the earlier quotes, with one exception. In 2012, long before MHN or ED took an interest, Moon was a member of the Blockland forum (a forum for an online lego style game). Users of Blockland expressed disgust and horror with Moon after he boasted of masturbating to Neko Shota (Japanese porn of underage boys, apparently). Post
here, archive
here.
In a thread speculating about whether Moon had been arrested, user Stocking accuses him of
threatening to murder, anally rape and genitally mutilate her (archive
here). Using his account CityRPG (he has had many names on the site as he kept getting banned), Moon did not deny the allegation but responded,
“I was really mad that day”.
It looks like Encyclopaedia Dramatica’s quotes are 100% accurate. In
another previous article I also unearthed Moon’s admission that he fantasised about murdering his mother with a steak knife.
Dynastia’s Indecent Images and Stalking of Women
One prolific user of Kiwi Farms is Dynastia, who goes by
@KiwiDynastia (archive
here) on Twitter – warning profile contains penis photo. This is a
tweet (archive
here) where he sends a picture of his uninspiring member to the
#GamerGate hashtag.
I include the picture because it is the
actus re of an offence. Dynastia is not merely joking that he will send a penis photo – he is caught in the act of doing so. This is important because it means the ‘Nyberg Defence’ that he was only joking will not run. Furthermore the minimum user age on Twitter is 13 (see
policy here, archive
here).
It is forseeable that a hashtag like #GamerGate will be used by many minors, and sending a penis to the tag means sending it to
children. So I showed Dynastia’s penis to police officers. His wang selfie has seen a surprising amount of circulation. Dynastia and his friend
@KiwiNull carry on the mission of Kiwi Farms on Twitter, openly ban evading.
In the old days, flashers were inadequates who would lurk, drooling and shaking in bushes or public parks waiting to expose themselves to women or children nearby. Studies show such men often graduate to contact sexual offenses. These days the same dysfunctional losers often conduct their predations online.
In a series of further tweets
[1],
[2],
[3] (archives
[A1],
[A2],
[A3]) Dynastia solicits sending penis photos to a feminist who he disagrees with and also admits to sending 70 penis photos to Zoe Quinn. This is a straightforward crime in both UK and US law. In the UK, under the
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 such unsolicited communications might count as regular harassment (s1, s2). If the woman was placed in fear of violence (such as rape) the offence is under s4 and carries a jail term of up to 5 years.
Whilst harassment is not per se a sex crime in the UK, if there is a sexual element such as sending women penis photos a judge can make an order treating it as such. This means requiring the perpetrator to be added to the sexual offender’s register as well as any appropriate restrictions (e.g. ban them from Twitter).
Similar provisions apply under Florida law, which has a harassment statute at Title XLVI, 784.048 with more severe punishments for threats (which may be non-verbal). Of particular note, Florida law has a specific offence for cyber stalking or harassing a child under 16 years (784.048 (5)). This is relevant given Kiwi Farms specific written policy decision to dox underage children (see below).
The harassment email and penis photo campaign was organised on Kiwi Farms, where users openly screenshotted themselved impersonating prominent feminists to send threatening and sexual messages. Links to the ‘dick pics’ thread are here [1] and [2]. In case Moon removes the thread, there is an archive here (
[A1] and
[A2]). The campaign happened right in front of Moon after he announced his new email service and it is unclear that the system has ever had any other use case.
In short, Kiwi Farms is used with the knowledge and participation of its administrator and owner to carry out sexualised cyberstalking of women contrary to Florida state law.
Deliberately Targeting Underage Children
Recently, Dynastia held a poll on Kiwi Farms as to whether it was okay to dox underage children (archive
here). The vote passed 14 to 10. In case anyone was wondering if it was a joke the site has subsequently literally carried out the policy and doxxed children as young as 5, for example the child of Block Bot administrator Marian Aanerud (
@MAMelby). Again, because of this the, ‘Nyberg Defence’ will not fly.
In ultra-creepy fashion, the Kiwi Farmers archived a (clothed) photo gallery of Aanerud’s young son. Nothing says, ‘no paedophiles here’ like creating a photo archive of someone else’s 5 year old. In this light Dynastia’s pious claims he is against harm to children are laughable. Whilst claiming to SWAT paedophiles he is helping stalk children.
Your author loathes Marian Aanerud, who
was ‘laid off’ a few weeks after falsely accusing me of stalking. Even so, I am not going to link her Kiwi Farms thread here or the pictures of her children. Whilst there are legitimate criticisms of Aanerud and the Block Bot to be made neither I, nor any member of GamerGate has ever stooped to doxxing her child or running photos of him.
As noted above, such conduct is a specific offence in Florida. This must be especially upsetting to Aanerud given Moon’s previous statements about masturbating to Hentai containing underage boys. I will not provide links here but have provided them directly to law enforcement. Aanerud could do far worse than contact Sheriff Morgan (
dmorgan@escambiaso.com). ...