Twitch streamer gets swatted at her house and arrested – then takes down hate forum

On September 6, 2022By Garmin Philip

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 at her home and arrested. 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:

That’s what happened when Twitch put a woman on the Security Council who acted like a deer

This is the latest conflict:

About a month ago, the Twitch streamer became the target of a hate campaign. Polygon reported Aug. 9 that Keffals was “swatted” at her home and arrested (via polygon). It is believed that this campaign originated in the notorious Kiwi Farms forum: Kiwi Farms is considered a “hate forum”.

In the case of Swatten, the police are alerted under false pretenses (e.g. a hostage-taking situation) and sent to the address of the Swatting victim. The idea is for the police to overpower the swatting victim, completely taken by surprise, in order to distribute a crime. Swatting is by no means a prank call, it’s deadly serious business. In Swatting, uninvolved people have already died, perpetrators went to prison for it.

This is how the Twitch streamer took revenge: Keffals has been able to exert so much pressure with her community that service provider CloudFlare has withdrawn its support for the forum and it now appears to be closing and staying offline permanently.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 Sept. 6, Keffals 4 shared 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:

cyberbullying
cyberstalking
hacking
threat
hate speech
persecution of minorities

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 it’s fake

What’s the problem with this post? The post that Keffals shares is seen by Americans as a sign of the strictness of the German judiciary and that cyberbullying is being cracked down on in Germany.

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:

There was a lot of discussion about the fact that the Greens politician Renate Künast had to put up with the worst insults on the Internet, because these insults also fell under freedom of expression. Künast had to sue her right at the Federal Constitutional Court.
A major investigation by ZDF Magazin Royale in May 2022 revealed that German police have failed in many cases to track crimes online (via youtube).

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.