So now you’re saying the internet trolls should get to dictate who gets to make money online.

The problem with going offline nowadays is that, assuming your career and livelihood isn’t tied to the internet, then if, for example, you’re trans, it’s quite possible that now you’re completely isolated from your entire social network and you don’t know anybody in real life who knows and supports you.

I’ve actually known of a couple of Twitch streamers/YT personalities that have been swatted enough times that when they move their first action is to get in touch with their local police department and let them know about the previous swattings and now they get phone calls asking if everything is ok if their address…

I believe even that is giving them too much credit. Ascribing an untreated mental health condition to the cause of shitty behavior is often a hand-wave for people who don’t want to believe they’re friends with/related to a bigot.

Yes that’s the thing that makes you money so you can live.

That requires cops to do their jobs and look at those forms before going into “rah-rah” mode, gearing up with military weaponry and pulling out in their 40-ton armored SWAT-mobile.

Wrong time and place for this comment, bro.

Police departments should have a form that online public figures can fill out that puts a flag on the residence saying “Hey, thousands of people watch my streams, there is a chance one of them might try to get the SWAT team to show up at my residence in order to harm me. By all means check it out if you get a call,…

Did you miss the “Twitch streamer” part? The internet is literally her livelihood. “Going offline” would mean abandoning her career.

Why should she be the one required to go offline? What you’re suggesting is that the shitty transphobes should be allowed to decide who gets to be online.

Imagine how insecure you must be in your gender and sexuality to dox and harass trans folks. I’d feel bad for these bullies not knowing a day of peace, but, well, they’re scum.

fuck all the hateful fucks around the world. get a life, contribute to society instead of doxing innocent people.

Don’t know that I can think of many lower forms of life than someone with a KiwiFarms account but I’ll try.

Time for Anonymous to step in and expose these Kiwi Farms users.

My own edit- “The pandemic fucking sucks; ***hundreds of*** thousands of people have and are dying and everyone would all like it to be over as soon as possible”

Absolutely it’s going to be fact-dependent, but the chance of showing ‘they knew, someone told them’ is absolutely zero if nobody tells them.

There was a dude in my hometown who had a reputation for having this absolutely wild sex parties. I don't think he sought out minors or anything, but I would also bet some got in... And this dude just ran for senate. I was fucking floored when I heard he was running. That's not even skeletons in your closet, those are…

Oh yes, very important to make people aware of this history of predatory behavior. It might be the thing that protects someone from becoming a victim.
A guy in my AA home group raped a sponsee of mine, causing her to relapse after decades of sobriety and to be hospitalized with a breakdown.

As a victim myself:

I’m worried that, without receipts, someone from the dude’s distant past will not be taken seriously. Especially if they want to remain anonymous and protect the identity of the survivors. Absolutely DO NOT out your friends as “evidence.”