Last month Kiwi Farms owner Joshua Conner Moon set up an image board site called 9chan. Moon was previously dismissed from notorious image board 8chan (now 8kun.top) over a botched attempt to upgrade their software and inappropriate conduct in relation to the site’s child pornography forums. Within 2 days of setting up 9chan, Moon was boasting on Twitter (archive) of featuring in an article on Vice.com because of the site’s involvement in cyber attacks on the World Health Organisation. Now, 9chan has a board for stalking and demeaning female legislators all over the world with fake nudes and rape stories often involving their children. This week members have taken credit for an attempt to break into the home of Jess Phillips MP. The 9chan site also expressly allows certain types of illegal child exploitation material in its terms.
Like many British politicians, Jess Phillips MP doubtless receives a lot of indefensible hate mail. From her comments in a public interview in the Birmingham Mail (archive) however she is not familiar with the nightmarish Kiwi Farms group and the fact that it has been linked to horrific real world attacks on children and has members in the United Kingdom willing to participate in real world harassment. The threat is far worse than, “It’s just the usual dark web online nonsense” or, “just in-cell [sic] group in America or something”.
Kiwi Farms and 9chan are home to a world-wide cadre of individuals too extreme and despicable for mainstream neo-Nazi or hate sites. Joshua Moon himself was the only person ever banned from wannabe Nazi payment site Hatreon. The Hatreon site itself was later shut down by the card networks. The owner of Hatreon Cody Wilson was actually later convicted of causing “injury” to a minor he had allegedly paid for sex, after pleading guilty (archive). However, even he found Moon’s disturbing paedophile rug-rat snuff rape fantasies intolerable.
Kiwi Farms members have been involved in attacks on children in multiple countries. On 7 December 2017 William Atchison walked into his old school in Aztec, New Mexico and opened fire. He succeeded in killing two minors before taking his own life. Media reported he was a member of various extremist sites including Kiwi Farms but MHN exclusively discovered that Atchison had spoken personally to Joshua Moon about school shootings only three days before he committed his murder-suicide. The full story is set out in my article of the time, “Kiwi Farms Member Kills 2 in School Rampage Before Killing Himself – Police Knew of Risk Nearly 2 Years Ago”.
After the Christchurch mosque shootings in which Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people, Joshua Moon taunted New Zealand police, explaining that he personally was distributing the killer’s video and manifesto as Australian TV News reported (archive). Moon’s unhinged rant makes for disturbing reading – “I don’t give a single solitary fuck what section 50 of your faggot laws say about sharing your email […] Fuck you and fuck your shithole country […]”.
In the United Kingdom, Kiwi Farms has been linked to terror threats to hospitals but also to real world actions. Hertfordshire Police spent significant time trying to track down Kiwi Farms members TheDrivelBroadcast and Ginger Piglet. TheDrivelBroadcast had driven to Welwyn Garden City, photographed a building near a local school where Kiwis had threatened mass murder, and then waited a month or two before posting it so any CCTV records would have been deleted.
Ginger Piglet who claims to be a UK lawyer had also been involved in real world activity and sought to attend the offices of Welwyn-Hatfield Borough Council where I was once a councillor. A third member in Merseyside printed and posted a letter written by Josh to a Hertfordshire Resident Oliver Smith (no relation to me). The letter had been written in my style, attempting to implicate me but when pressed Josh admitted (perhaps panicking) that he had written it.
MHN has good reason to suspect that Ginger Piglet or TheDrivelBroadcast may be behind the attempts to break into Jess Phillips’ home. Perhaps if police resume their hunt for Ginger Piglet they could check the contact details on Piglet’s food blog.
Even if Ginger Piglet cannot be linked to the attempted break-in, if their real world identity can be found police can have a chat with the Solicitors Regulation Authority as to whether Piglet’s activities online are consistent with the character and suitability test.
Leaving aside the Kiwis who kill people, and those who stalk in the real world, the online threat can be greater than obvious. Forged dating profile sites or simple monitoring of social media feeds and children can be chilling.
Kiwi Farms has been linked to several suicides including, for example, the self-immolation of Chloe Sagal (archive). After being stalked by Kiwi Farms Sagal turned herself into a pillar of flame on a busy Portland Street. Even cyber-stalking and impersonation could cause serious harm to the children of the politicians affected.
One person who will not be fearing stalking is Labour MP Ellie Reeves who has been declared to be an “Aryan” “Queen of our Hearts” by 9channers due to her refusal to help take down Kiwi Farms. Reeves has consistently failed to condemn the site despite my previous article about her unusual views, “Ellie Reeves and the Corpses of Children”, which she tried and failed to suppress. In fact she tried and failed to have me given a police warning for it.
Meanwhile, an analysis of 9chan rules reveals that Moon intends to allow a particularly disturbing form of child pornography, Japanese style cartoon child rape (also known as Loli or Shota depending on whether it features female children or male). The so-called ‘Terms of Service’ of 9chan state that “simulated child pornography” will be allowed provided it falls within an exception for, “artistic pursuits”. It is doubtless a mere coincidence that this includes the genre of child pornography that Mr Moon has publicly boasted of liking, ‘Neko Shota’ (archive).
It is worth reviewing the US Federal Statute Josh is relying on, 18 U.S. Code § 1466A. Obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children (archive). To fall under this section, an image must, be –
“an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;”
– but be of, “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”. I personally, take the view that convincing a judge that humongous quantities of Japanese style child-rape gorn have, “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value” is likely to be a hard sell. In addition, in his 300+ page impotent hate thread on me, Josh has tried to minimise his admissions stating he made the posts referred to at the age of 15 and was interested at the time in boys his own age. Which might fly if he was not now 27 years old and hosting and distributing industrial quantities of the stuff.
Josh’s knowledge of the law is also a fail. The defence does not apply if the prosecution is brought under 18 U.S. Code § 1466A (a) (1) (A) “depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; and” (B) “is obscene […]”. So basically, Josh is openly admitting to allowing vast quantities of child pornography illegal under US Federal Law to be hosted and distributed world wide on his site.
Other forums on 9chan include –
- /nigger/ (for racism)
- /newzealand/ (for mocking New Zealand and cheering Brenton Tarrant, they even changed the usual, ‘Anonymous’ default post name to ‘Mosque Inspector’)
- /coalfax/ (resurrection of a site for doxing and stalking white women, ‘verified’ to have engaged in ‘coal burning’ by having sex with non-Caucasians)
- /trannyhate/ (self-explanatory)
There are several forums on 9chan that I have not viewed to avoid risking committing an offence, but which have names consistent with the type of illegal pornography Josh enjoys and allows. These include, /loli/ /lolishota/ and /shotacon/. It astonishes me that the American police and FBI can’t prosecute a man openly distributing humongous quantities of child rape images. To avoid risking committing an offence I am just going to draw those URLs to the attention of law enforcement and some pretty upset MPs.
Joshua’s parliamentary victims need to take action to secure their safety including CCTV and armed police. The difficulty with Moon and his followers is that he is a consumate incel-whisperer, constantly goading his team of socially dysfunctional minions. It only takes one inadequate loser to kill a child. As a sign of just how depraved 9chan is, it differs from its competitors in one respect. Both 4chan and 8chan have an /s/ board, for straight men who like sexy, beautiful, adult women. Normal heterosexuals. It is the only board ostentatiously absent from 9chan.
This is not the first time Josh has been linked to child pornography. In my very first article about him on 16 April 2016 I noted that French hosting company Gandi.net had banned his site Kiwi Farms for hosting child pornography. The failure to arrest him is a damning indictment of the FBI. It cannot reflect well on the FBI Director Christopher Wray that Josh is still at liberty. In any case, how much child pornography does one Nazi incel need?
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Null needs to get arrested, and his Kiwi Farms deleted, FAST!
We need law enforcement to help delete his garbage and not let the content be saved ever again.
No one wants to be doxxed, or worse…