Far-right radicalization is increasingly thriving in corners of the internet. Extremist forums and communities are glorifying mass attackers and cultivating violent subcultures tied to real-world violence. Sites like Kiwi Farms repeatedly surface in the backgrounds of attackers & extremist networks.

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PSA: operating a bot that interacts with users on another user's behalf, without verifying that the recipient actually wants to receive interaction (eg following the sender) is like operating an open relay or open proxy. don't do it! triply so if you're letting brand new users interact through you.

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PSA: please remove 103.114.190.0/23 from your IP blocklists/denylists. It now belongs to a legitimate Australian ISP (lightningbroadband.com.au), and is no longer under the control of Flow Chemical Pty Ltd or any entity known by me to be associated with Joshua Moon or Kiwi Farms.

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There 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.

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These 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.

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