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Legal issues
At various points in its life, Kiwi Farms members and its owner Joshua Moon have run afoul of authorities and forced into courts. However, each time they have survived, as most suits were filed by people with misunderstandings of how the law works, and most times the protections of Section 230 were invoked as they tried to sue Moon or his companies as an entity for posts on his site.
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Patrick Sean Tomlinson
Tomlinson is a sci-fi author who in 2021 filed a suit against 60 unknown different users of Kiwi Farms, after subpoenaing CloudFlare for the thread on him.49 The thread was only 4 pages long at the time, but contained his dox, something he claimed was used against him by every user in the thread to harass him over phone; the thread has inflated to nearly 800 pages since. The suit specifically cited defamation, invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional stress, tortious interference, and civil conspiracy as complaints against the John Does.50 One of the John Does, who operated the site OnA Forums, would counter-sue as the suit violated their First Amendment rights. Tomlinson was forced to pay over $23,000 to that user and voluntarily dismissed his other lawsuit after paying over $100,000 in legal fees towards it.50 54
Referenced footnotes:
49. β2021-04-07 - Patrick Sean Tomlinson subpoenas Cloudflareβ, Kiwi Farms, 2021 (Archive)
50. βMilwaukee County Case Number 2021CV000500β¦β, Wisconsin Circuit Court Access, 2021
54. βNOTICE OF ENTRY OF ORDER/NOTICE OF RULING FILEDβ¦β, Case Number: CPF21517455 [Note, the site does not let you directly link to cases. Look for the motion filed 2021-10-04, after searching for case name βTOMLINSON, PATRICKβ]
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why are those kiwis so mean to our best pal rick?
full doc is here but be careful if you're signed into a google account, hosted on google drive - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mmD_8iVO4s_DK_TGk8SIESzyPVYTeR3MtxRa6k9dpUI/edit
KF thread - https://kiwifarms.net/threads/keffals-clara-sorrenti-lucas-roberts.115295/page-891#post-12760066
Legal issues
At various points in its life, Kiwi Farms members and its owner Joshua Moon have run afoul of authorities and forced into courts. However, each time they have survived, as most suits were filed by people with misunderstandings of how the law works, and most times the protections of Section 230 were invoked as they tried to sue Moon or his companies as an entity for posts on his site.
...
Patrick Sean Tomlinson
Tomlinson is a sci-fi author who in 2021 filed a suit against 60 unknown different users of Kiwi Farms, after subpoenaing CloudFlare for the thread on him.49 The thread was only 4 pages long at the time, but contained his dox, something he claimed was used against him by every user in the thread to harass him over phone; the thread has inflated to nearly 800 pages since. The suit specifically cited defamation, invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional stress, tortious interference, and civil conspiracy as complaints against the John Does.50 One of the John Does, who operated the site OnA Forums, would counter-sue as the suit violated their First Amendment rights. Tomlinson was forced to pay over $23,000 to that user and voluntarily dismissed his other lawsuit after paying over $100,000 in legal fees towards it.50 54
Referenced footnotes:
49. β2021-04-07 - Patrick Sean Tomlinson subpoenas Cloudflareβ, Kiwi Farms, 2021 (Archive)
50. βMilwaukee County Case Number 2021CV000500β¦β, Wisconsin Circuit Court Access, 2021
54. βNOTICE OF ENTRY OF ORDER/NOTICE OF RULING FILEDβ¦β, Case Number: CPF21517455 [Note, the site does not let you directly link to cases. Look for the motion filed 2021-10-04, after searching for case name βTOMLINSON, PATRICKβ]
"""
why are those kiwis so mean to our best pal rick?
full doc is here but be careful if you're signed into a google account, hosted on google drive - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mmD_8iVO4s_DK_TGk8SIESzyPVYTeR3MtxRa6k9dpUI/edit
KF thread - https://kiwifarms.net/threads/keffals-clara-sorrenti-lucas-roberts.115295/page-891#post-12760066