Twitch streamer Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti (28) campaigns for the rights of transgender people. She is regularly attacked for this. About a month ago she was swatted and arrested at her home in Canada. She then launched a campaign to take down the Kiwi Farms forum. Now she’s celebrating the win.
This is Keffal’s:
Twitch advocates for diversity, an issue that harbors the potential for conflict:
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Streamer interrogated by police at home for fake email
This is the latest conflict:
About a month ago, the Twitch streamer became the target of a hate campaign. Site Polygon reported that Keffals was “swatted” and arrested at her home in London, Ontario on Aug. 5 (via Polygon). Keffals says she woke up and found herself looking down the barrel of a gun.
Someone had sent a fake email threatening people on behalf of Keffal. The email said Keffals had killed her mother and was planning to go to the town hall with an illegal firearm and hurt people there.
It is believed that this campaign originated in the notorious Kiwi Farms forum: Kiwi Farms is considered a “hate forum”.
What is swatting? In a swatting incident, the police are alerted under false pretenses (such as a hostage situation) and sent to the swatting victim’s address. The idea is for the police to overpower the swatting victim, completely taken by surprise, to thwart a crime. Swatting is by no means a prank call, it’s deadly serious business. People have already died in Swatting, perpetrators went to prison for it.
This is how the Twitch streamer took revenge: Keffals was able to exert so much pressure with her community that the service provider CloudFlare withdrew its support for the forum (via cloudflare) and it now appears that the forum will have to close and will remain offline permanently.
Keffals celebrates this success with their community on Twitter.
Germany is praised for “tough crackdown” on cyberbullying
This is interesting from a German point of view: On September 6, Keffals shared 4 messages from a German woman who identified her as one of the users of “Kiwi Farms” (via twitter).
The woman shares a supposed official letter from the public prosecutor’s office in Nuremberg-Fürth. According to the document dated August 21, 2022, an investigation was opened against them.
The allegations are:
Keffals also shares chat histories: the woman was asked whether she would be prosecuted for cyberbullying in the case of the German YouTuber “Drachenlord”. But she replied, “No, because of keffals.”
Bremen police officer reacts completely incorrectly to a Twitch streamer ad
Berlin law professor thinks the document is fake
What’s the problem with this post? The post Keffals shared was seen by Twitter users as a sign of the rigor of the German judiciary and that Germany is cracking down on cyberbullying – in contrast to the lax laws elsewhere.
However, from a German point of view, this seems to be a reading that we find difficult to understand. Cases in which no action was taken against cyberbullying have been reported from Germany time and time again:
This is how the law professor Dr. Kirstin Drenkhahn from Berlin, the letter as a likely fake: the wording was wrong, the formalities were also incorrect.
But even the professor does not understand why someone should forge such a letter.
The hate and cyberbullying of the YouTuber “Drachenlord” is a very special and creepy German internet phenomenon:
Drachenlord’s YouTube channel deleted: Haters cheer: “Defeated” – But he says: “I’ll just go to TikTok”