> Near did not commit suicide. Near was murdered. Victim of a lifetime of harassment. After an abusive childhood, and followed by community toxicity, Near was eventually targeted by Kiwi Farms.
From a statement by the friend who was on the line for his last moments. https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pOhaaFh998B0kyc5Sm4Ihlh...
This was not a passive act. This was not a mental health issue. This was murder, premeditated, and with utter and complete indifference to human life, by a site that is widely known and supported by some of the largest corporations in tech.
Cloudflare still provides services to KF despite repeated requests and reports as recently as December of last year. Despite occasional promises to the contrary, search engines like Google and DDG continue to allow them to googlebomb people's names and pollute search results with slander.
This is a site that delights in murdering people for sport, and jokes about "kill counts" whenever one of their victims finally succumbs to their relentless abuse and harassment. Its members deliberately targeted them with endless abuse, tracked down and doxxed family and friends, and even similarly attempted to bomb them with suicidebait themselves, all to completely isolate them from any support or help and make them terrified not just for their own life, but that of those who cared for them.