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Steven Bonnell II
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Steven Bonnell II writes Bonnell's Thoughts, a personal blog at destinygg.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2022, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Keffals: A Case Study on Internet Terrorism and Mass Media Manipulation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Steven Bonnell II's Substack, especially a long case study of Keffals and Kiwi Farms, as a counter-view in threads on the Kiwi Farms and Cloudflare dispute. Most links are cited as sources.
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Bonnell's Thoughts.
Most-linked posts?
- Keffals: A Case Study on Internet Terrorism and Mass Media Manipulation9 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2022-10-04
What Hacker News says?
Not sure what your views on Destiny are, but he has a very excellent write-up on KiwiFarms specifically. It's from when Keffals weaponized the masses against them. You don't have to like them, 4chan doesn't, but both of them just won for everyone worldwide by proving OFCOM has no right to police others outside their own country. Awful people exist everywhere regardless of a site documenting what people willingly pos…
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on “I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27”Submitted Keffals: A Case Study on Internet Terrorism and Mass Media Manipulation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe hotel where she was doxed by the sheets nothing was delivered, the second hotel was where the uber hack happenned and things were ordered thru ubereats, this was all done by doxbin[0], both the dox and the hack.I'm pretty sure kf was actually down during that whole thing due to a ddos attack but I may be misremembering. Wikipedia doesnt post the truth(it's impossible, really), they post things backed up by secon…
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on “Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet (2021)”Submitted Keffals: A Case Study on Internet Terrorism and Mass Media Manipulation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome of that info may turn out to be more than just a little inconvenient[0]. It should be noted that KF is back, and that the PR and associated DDoS campaigns appear only to have made the site more resilient. Whether Internet Archive caches their pages might not even matter in the short to medium term. [0] https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...
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on “Internet Archive to Honor Carl Malamud with 2022 Hero Award”The pathological liar aka keffal is not someone I would take their words to heart[1]. KF is at best passively in support of doxing and of harassing people or at worst actively doing both of it. [1] https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...
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on “Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet (2021)”to be fair it is an open website with no registration required to see its contents, shouldn't be hard to show how that is supposedly not true through archives especially considering the sheer scale of what is being alleged and in a span of ~10 odd years of operation. And yet since looking closer at kiwifarms during the start of the cloudflare campaign I'm still trying to find some that isn't a random twitter user go…
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on “Why Infrastructure Providers Should Stay Out of Content Policing (EFF)”While an extreme drunken rant that part refers to Keffals being allegedly involved in helping kids from ages 12 an on (by her own admission [0]) to transition. There's also some involvement with a wiki that offers information about seemingly sketchy hormone suppliers and guidance on using them that apparently also caters to minors [1]. Maybe they involve their parents, maybe not. If not that could be considered groo…
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on “Rekieta Law Removed from YouTube”Start by ceasing your trust is "Authoritative sources" aka "Main Stream" news err propaganda outfits like motherjones and fortune There is not enough evidence to support the claim that Kiwi Farms has bullied anyone to suicide. [1]. Kiwi Farms is often blamed for driving as many as three different individuals to suicide. This claim has been uncritically echoed by The Washington Post, Gizmodo, Insider, Daily Dot, NPR,…
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on “FedNow Is Live”Not the person you responded to, but this[1] is a very thorough and well-sourced criticism of the person behind the campaign to get Kiwifarms removed from Cloudflare. Sections two and three specifically go into the lies, misrepresentation and bad journalism surrounding Kiwifarms itself if you'd prefer not to read the whole thing. [1] https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...
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on “ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awful It Is”I have in the past[1], several times It gets old having the same false things posted over and over. often my posts[1] with the linked are also "flagged" because people here do not want to truth, they want the narrative. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36807942 [2] https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int... [3] https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/the-world-should-not-ne...
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on “ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awful It Is”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”He won't, but this article does [0]. It was written by an unbiased third party of KF and has a section that goes into detail about the three people that supposedly died by the hands of KF. The TL;DR is that two of them had other reasons for their death, and it's pretty reasonable (and morally correct) to assume KF had nothing to do with their demise. The third one, Byuu, is a bit more nuanced. From all the informati…
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on “Complaint filed against Hurricane Electric for blocking site”