There has been a lot of whining online from Kiwi Farmers and extremists over the last few days that the unceremonious departure of Kiwi Farms from Cloudflare is in some way the doom of free speech, or a victory for extremist transgender activists. I am a fairly right-wing British Conservative and I have been campaigning against Kiwi Farms for more than 6 years, sometimes aided by Conservative MP and Minister Grant Shapps. Kiwi Farms, owned by Joshua Conner Moon (who has changed his legal name to James Gabriel Potter) is not being banned for criticising transgender ideology – readers will find Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss has some strong views on the subject. Kiwi Farms is being banned for all the crimes carried out by its owner and members. It is a site so vile it unites right-wing Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene with the Anti-Defamation League and Antifa. Even Hatreon, the literal wannabe neo-Nazi alternative to Patreon, banned Kiwi Farms. This is an article to remind readers of two truly awful individuals who helped keep the site up – Randi Harper and David Morgan.

A photograph of Joshua Conner Moon (legal name James Gabriel Potter) before he put on weight. Joshua Moon is a sadistic paedophile who admits to viewing cartoon child pornography and hosted fantasies about abducting, wounding and raping children to death. Image used under the UK Parody exception pursuant to s30A Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Kiwi Farms is not being banned because it is a final bastion of free speech. Kiwi Farms is being banned because it is an organised terrorism and gang-stalking site, that has hounded a number of innocent people – gay, straight, trans and normal – to suicide through defamation and criminal harassment. Its owner Joshua Moon is an avowed, maniacal, paedophile who is on record as saying that ordinary child pornography is not arousing enough for him and he needs, “hurtcore”. Who knowingly and willingly hosted fanfic paedophile stories in which, “Big J” – an alias for Josh himself, moved to a third world country, abducted, mutilated, raped and murdered children. If a service supports Kiwi Farms, they are not supporting free speech they are supporting a website whose members, led by sadistic paedophile Dynastia, took a vote to target children. Paedo-Dynastia has always been arrogant and convinced of his or her immunity – but what will they do when Josh is finally interviewed? They will be identified, hunted down and dealt with. The final straw for Kiwi Farms was repeated bomb threats.

The crumbling of Kiwi Farms is not over yet, but when it is gone there will still be free speech for Conservatives, for Gender Critical Feminists, even for the Alt-Right. Liz Truss herself has signalled her intent to use current Parliamentary legislation to protect the right to free speech online (archive). Those laws may protect many people such as Milo Yiannopoulos or Vox Day. There will be nothing for the Kiwi Farmers though. “Paedophiles unite for stalking yay!” is not a proposal that will ever gain popular public support. There will still be a Ralph Retort –  Ethan Ralph being yet another right wing commentator who is celebrating the downfall of the Kiwi Farms (archive).

Many people have expressed surprise that the owner of the Kiwi Farms site was not arrested earlier. Perhaps if he had, lives might have been saved – such as the 51 Muslims who were shot dead in the Christchurch Mosque shootings whose perpetrator was abetted by Moon (archive). For that, I blame two people. Step forward, Randi Harper, enabler of the paedophile monster Joshua Conner Moon! In 2016 Joshua Moon was arrested by Pensacola police after his stalking email service lolcow.email was used to threaten murders at local schools. Randi helped pressure the sheriff into releasing him. She was publicly thanked by the Kiwis and the thread on her was locked in gratitude. She wrote an article about the support on Medium, claiming to be motivated by morality (archive). However, she was later accused of using the site to attack her enemies (archive). Nora Reed, a transwoman who accused Harper, described her as, “a fucking snake”.

Randi Harper helped keep Kiwi Farms open in early 2016 when Joshua Moon was arrested. She helped the sadistic paedophile retain his liberty to commit more horrific acts before he eventually fled the jurisdiction. People whose loved ones died or suffered due to the farms may wish to hold her accountable.

It is not the first time Harper was accused of wrongdoing. In 2015, Milo Yiannopoulos wrote a 3 part exposé [1] [2] [3] (archives [1] [2] [3]). Milo alleged trolling, doxing and harassment of opponents by Harper. He also found posts from a blog by Randi Harper in which she admitted to abusing drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine. She had also lost custody of her son. At the time, Randi Harper went by the Twitter handle @FreeBSDGirl, based on her claimed contributions to the open source project of the same name. Harper later changed the name, claiming she was forced to change it after she was threatened with litigation by the FreeBSD Foundation which did not want to be associated with her toxic online behaviour (archive). So, whilst Randi claimed to protect Moon for benevolent motives she has been well documented as engaging in similar online harassment and doxing behaviour.

Randi Harper currently claims to work at Pondurance (archive), whose CEO is Doug Howard (doug.howard@pondurance.com). For the memory of Julie Terryberry, who was hounded to suicide, and all the other dead victims of the Kiwi Farms, Randi Harper has to be held accountable. Right now, Pondurance may not know about Randi Harper’s past. However, I have written to them to change all that. If, after being informed, Pondurance wants to employ her then Doug Howard needs to become utterly toxic. Every business contact he has ever had needs to know what he has done and who he is prepared to have in his company. Every supplier, every identifiable customer. Until either Randi is gone, or Pondurance is. She needs to be held accountable.

The second person I blame is former Sheriff of Escambia County Florida, David Morgan. Cyberstalking is illegal in Florida, but despite numerous complaints and outright mockery per my 2016 article, “‘Fake Anthrax’ – Law Enforcement Inaction Leads to Further Joshua Conner Moon / Kiwi Farms Related Crime”, David Morgan failed to bring Moon to justice. I would honestly like to see Morgan’s career brought to an end, but he seems to have disgraced himself. Morgan retired in 2021 and then repaid $37,500 in public money he had spent on commissioning a statue of himself (archive) before his retirement. His disgusted successor Chip Simmons said at the time, “You don’t make a statue of yourself. And you don’t use tax dollars to do it”. David Morgan’s legacy will not be a statue outside the Sheriff department. It will be his failures.

Many people over the years have made use of the site, or information posted thereon, to some degree. Doctor Louise June Moody admitted to posting on the site.That is very different from helping it stay up. Randi Harper and David Morgan are exceptional.

Depending on how you count, at least 57 deaths are linked to Kiwi Farms and its members. It would be simplistic to blame any one person. Most to blame is Joshua Conner Moon, followed by the other Kiwi Farmers and those who supported them. After that I blame law enforcement who seemed unwilling or unable to tackle an international cyber-stalking and terrorism site. I for one however, will never forget the role played by very ex-Sheriff David Morgan and vile Randi Harper. Neither should anyone else.

[Edited by MHN 20 November 2024 to remove information relating to third parties]