End Networked Harassment
A California 501(c)3 non-profit started by @lizthegrey.com, @binaryvixen899.bsky.social, and @remembrancermx.bsky.social to stop networked harassment groups from targeting vulnerable individuals.
EIN 99-4544633 / CA reg no 6351204, IRS DLN 26053720002634
- Reposted by End Networked HarassmentThere will be hundreds of posts on a fringe website claiming the opposite, causing an AI tool to shrug its shoulders and produce an outcome suggesting impropriety where there is none. Needless to say, this is not great and I'm determined to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else.
- Reposted by End Networked HarassmentThese tools have no limitations on "use up to 100 data points from this one website", they treat all the 1000s of correlated data points as independent and give them heavy weight and credence as a majority of the information available rather than a fringe minority that is shrill and repeats itself.
- Reposted by End Networked HarassmentA year ago, Joshua Moon crowdfunded >150k USD into an IOLTA, ostensibly to fund plaintiff-side litigation on behalf of his website Kiwi Farms and its operating entity Lolcow LLC. Instead, he spent "a lot" of it to help Vincent Zhen set aside the 445k AUD default judgment for defamation in Australia.
- Reposted by End Networked HarassmentTo my friends: After nearly two exhausting years of litigation, I have agreed to settle the defamation claim I brought against Vincent Zhen and Flow Chemical in the Supreme Court of Victoria. I will be able to share more when all the documents have been signed and exchanged. This is a good thing.
- Reposted by End Networked HarassmentFirst time I successfully published a post from a rsky-pds instance! Huge milestone for Blacksky in building a fully independent implementation of AT Protocol 🚀 pdsls.dev/at/did:plc:l... internect.info/did/did:plc:...
- Our 501(c)3 determination letter came through, so we can finally say that we are tax-exempt and eligible to receive charitable contributions (although our present financial needs are covered by @lizthegrey.com). You'll see the details updated in our bio as well. drive.google.com/file/d/1-otV...
- Curious why our blocklist often shows as empty? It's because @safety.bsky.app is doing their job. Suspended accounts are removed from the list, and sometimes removal-flagged but not yet fully suspended accounts cause list rendering to choke partway through displaying the list.
- I know people are ragging on @safety.bsky.app but they're doing 1 thing right: KF accounts are often being suspended within minutes of creation; sometimes by the time I go to add one to @endharassment.net's blocklist it's already been suspended. Or I'll check back 30 min after adding and it's gone.
- Why you don't give bad actors ideas for things to do: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BEANS Yes, there is now a false flag operation going on, it's by the same group of people operating the original KF bots, just keep blocking and reporting them. -LF
- We've now seen our first one, but believe they started using the OF name in response to @skysentry.bsky.social's thread rather than because it was happening before. Username is 3qhaghg similar to other accounts starting with 3... that were KF branded before. DID: did:plc:cgdonyyvdutfshmnnbeti2js -LF
- This is where our name comes from: we are survivors who aim to end the phenomenon of morally motivated networked harassment through education of the general public and of the service provider ecosystem. We're here to serve those communities impacted by networked harassment however we can. -LF
- And they introduce the concept of "Continuous Narrative Escalation", whereby a group of harassers craft a story together about why someone deserves to be harassed. This builds on the great work by @alicetiara.bsky.social on morally motivated network harassment (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....)
- Reposted by End Networked HarassmentI'm going to try to post more about papers I read. This morning I read "Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/.... In the paper, @kejsitake.bsky.social and co-authors look at the harassment community Kiwi Farms.
- So, let's talk about why a bunch of KF accounts are popping up on Bluesky to begin with. What they're doing is target hunting, and the signal they're looking for is reactions. They're looking for reactions because, spoiler alert, there are not as many of them as they would like you to think. -ACL
- Reposted by End Networked HarassmentDon't feed the trolls. That doesn't mean tolerate negative peace or missing stairs in your communities. But if you say things that will get screenshotted and shared on harassment forums, which encourages their trolling, you're feeding the goddamn trolls. Focus on your messaging, not theirs.
