Authors:
(1) Anh V. Vu, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre ([email protected]);
(2) Alice Hutchings, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre ([email protected]);
(3) Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge, and University of Edinburgh ([email protected]).
Table of Links
2. Deplatforming and the Impacts
2.2. The Kiwi Farms Disruption
3. Methods, Datasets, and Ethics, and 3.1. Forum and Imageboard Discussions
3.2. Telegram Chats and 3.3. Web Traffic and Search Trends Analytics
3.4. Tweets Made by the Online Community and 3.5. Data Licensing
4. The Impact on Forum Activity and Traffic, and 4.1. The Impact of Major Disruptions
5. The Impacts on Relevant Stakeholders and 5.1. The Community that Started the Campaign
6. Tensions, Challenges, and Implications and 6.1. The Efficacy of the Disruption
6.2. Censorship versus Free Speech
6.3. The Role of Industry in Content Moderation
6.5. Limitations and Future Work
7. Conclusion, Acknowledgments, and References
This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license.
[7] Telethon: https://telethon.dev
[8] Other domains include kiwifarms.tw and kiwifarms.hk, however they are either new or insignificant so their traffic data is trivial.
[9] Similarweb: https://similarweb.com/. Another popular web analytics is Semrush at https://semrush.com/, but it does not offer daily statistics.
[10] A business subscription offers 6 months of historical data, but neither it nor the free trial provides access to longitudinal country-based records.
