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Corinna Cohn
Personal blog · corinnacohn.substack.comculturepolitics
Corinna Cohn's personal blog at corinnacohn.substack.com covers culture and politics. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The world should not need Kiwi Farms”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Substack posts by Corinna Cohn on Kiwi Farms, Keffals and Cloudflare's decisions, and on free speech and gender debates. HN commenters cite them as sources in threads on online moderation and deplatforming.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ideas about gender, gender identity, and its effects on culture, policy, and health.
Most-linked posts?
- The world should not need Kiwi Farms3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-09-12
What Hacker News says?
> You didn't actually answer my request for evidence, though I agree with the NYT that censorship is rooted in fear [1]. Evidence is aplenty of the benefits of open discourse. In real-world places where open discourse is encouraged, people and ideas thrive. Also, saying "you need to be protected from other people's words" is not a winning argument in the public sphere. People want to be trusted to make their own dec…
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on “Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society”Submitted The world should not need Kiwi Farms as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's narrower than you might think. For example, I've recently been paying attention to the trans issue because some are saying that pro-trans groups are equating words with violence [1] [2]. Apparently the pro-trans groups have been saying that only 1% detransition, but there are youth speaking out saying that number is likely far greater [3] [4] [5]. It's hard for me to believe these are made up stories. And, it a…
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on “Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation”> That's not sarcasm. Regardless of the user's intent, I think it's at least misleading to claim that it represented the site as a whole. I personally believe that it's sarcastic considering Kiwi Farm's history with Trans Lifeline. They exposed the founders for embezzling money and not answering the phones; the founders were removed by the board, but not before going on a public crusade claiming Kiwi Farms was respo…
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on “Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet (2021)”> The "Defend Women" line is a perfect tactic for TERFs to use, and they use it early and often. Yeah, it's wild. Meghan Murphy [1] has a lot of guests on who discuss this topic. Some of it is pretty eye opening because the issue is only briefly touched upon via established media, aside from right wing sources. I guess that just provides opportunity for independent journalists to grow by telling such stories. I neve…
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on “The distinction between free speech as a legal right and cultural value”Ok so we want to go down that path, where every single one of those statements by CloudFlare was proven to be wrong.... https://corinnacohn.substack.com/p/the-world-should-not-need... https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/why-keffals-really-took... https://wahf.substack.com/p/the-kiwi-in-the-coalmine-part-i https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int... Just a start, and with out getting to all the l…
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on “Cloudflare is destroying the open internet”