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'The terror is over': Mom of trans girl featured on National Geographic says KiwiFarms doxxed her [1]

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Date: 2022-09-06

x Kiwi Farms went after a family whose trans child, Avery, was featured on National Geographic. They doxed a 9 year old and cyberstalked her family. They were truly sociopathic scum.



There are so many stories like this of people suffering in silence afraid to speak out. https://t.co/cTQsc1Ksv0 pic.twitter.com/rcLE6HV3lq — Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) September 6, 2022

“It was the ‘Gender Revolution’! But within days, we were doxxed on KiwiFarms,” Jackson wrote.

She continued in a thread:

The kind and gentle folks who call themselves Kiwi Farmers decided that I was a groomer pedophile and that Avery would only be "safe" if they exposed our full names, addresses, cell phone numbers, places of work, etc. "to protect the children" dontchaknow. It was the night of an ice storm, when our city was essentially shut down. But within moments of a google alert (because I'm not a complete noob), we noticed cars stopping in front of our house. In the middle of an ice storm. Panic started to creep in. We watched updates on our thread as more and more very private information was share. Not all accurate. (Mostly not accurate, but that doesn't matter to them.) But those cars. In an ice storm… Our kids were 9 and 10. It was past their bedtime, but they noticed that mom and dad were still up and talking an awful lot. We were on the phone with everyone we could think of. What do we do? How do we stop this? The cars in front of our house… Over the next few days, we spoke to the local police. They sent us to the FBI cyber crimes unit. They contacted federal district attorneys. Folks started investigating. They wanted to help. They wanted to. But they kept running into dead ends.

x Meanwhile, the Nat Geo story made headlines. A local reporter stopped by while I was ending a call with the FBI. He overheard a bit of the convo, and while I said "this is all off the record," he used it as his headline the next day. "Online trolls are after this family." — Debi Jackson (@the_debijackson) September 6, 2022

Jackson said a thread about her child on KiwiFarms was linked in hundreds of stories globally. "I thought our life was literally over as each new google citation came in," the mother tweeted.

“MY CHILD WAS 9,” Jackson continued. “Nine.They bragged in the thread that I ‘must be watching’ so they wanted to elevate things for me to read. So many comments about driving me to suicide...for my child's benefit. MY CHILD WAS 9.”

Jackson said authorities couldn't determine the jurisdiction the incident fell in and encouraged her to file a lawsuit and "hope for the best."

x This wasn't about me. This was about my child. I wanted to take them on, but my child was scared. We tried to keep things calm at home. I mean...they were only 9. But kids are perceptive. They pick up on things. My anxiety and fear wasn't as masked as I thought. — Debi Jackson (@the_debijackson) September 6, 2022

Jackson instead turned to Google, she tweeted.

"I was connected to folks on their LGBTQ ERG and they helped. After a couple of months, they realized how bad KF was and decided to stop indexing their pages," the mother said. "That meant no more KF pages would turn in up search results for any person they targeted!"

Or so she thought.

Jackson wrote:

“I was so proud of this victory. It was one that I couldn't share publicly, because I didn't want farmers to know what was happening. I hoped it would be a slow and silent death to the site. But apparently, somewhere along the line, they changed their mind.”

x I regularly search our names...just to be sure. I still don't see KF pages.



But @keffals said that search results were showing up for her. I was devastated to read that after all that we had been through. I thought we had done something to keep our trans friends safe. — Debi Jackson (@the_debijackson) September 6, 2022

Still, Jackson said when she learned of Clara Sorrenti, a transgender streamer on the interactive livestreaming service Twitch, publicly advocating for a KiwiFarms takedown, it gave Jackson panic attacks. "I didn't want to not cheer for her, but I also was terrified about how much new traffic she was generating for them," the mother tweeted of the streamer, who goes by Keffals.

Jackson said she was "terrified" of more people accessing her family's personal information, but then Sorrenti did it: She won.

CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post on Saturday:

We have blocked Kiwifarms. Visitors to any of the Kiwifarms sites that use any of Cloudflare's services will see a Cloudflare block page and a link to this post. Kiwifarms may move their sites to other providers and, in doing so, come back online, but we have taken steps to block their content from being accessed through our infrastructure. This is an extraordinary decision for us to make and, given Cloudflare's role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a dangerous one that we are not comfortable with. However, the rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site and specific, targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or any other customer before.

Jackson credited Sorrenti and so many trans advocates that worked with her. “They are holding those terrorists accountable,” Jackson tweeted.

Of her child, she wrote this:

Avery is just 15. More than a third of Avery's life has been lived in the shadows of Kiwi Farms terrorism. My bright and confident kid withered away, decided that being a proud and public trans kid ruined their life, and didn't even want to acknowledge being trans anymore. But now, things have changed. Today was overcast but we felt nothing but sun on our faces. We know the terror is over. Avery is free.

x I'm going to get my kid back. <3



That's it. That's the point of this thread. I'm going to get my bright and shining, confident and happy kid back.



I honestly don't even know how to end this, because I'm crying too much.



I. HAVE. MY. CHILD. AGAIN. — Debi Jackson (@the_debijackson) September 6, 2022

RELATED STORY: Web security company Cloudflare cuts ties with notorious trolling and harassment site KiwiFarms

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