More specifically, their reaction was to parse through the tweets she released and point out that less than 2% of them came actually from GamerGate
More specifically, their reaction was to parse through the tweets she released and point out that less than 2% of them came actually from GamerGate
Really, what's with these guys? When regular people get called sexist, the normal reaction is to just laugh it off.
Yeah, it's like they threw a dart at a board and suddenly decided to attack some unknown female self-employed developer one day, out of the blue. Seriously, there's no context? Nothing leading up to it? What a scattershot way to work toward their goal
Well, we're seeing progress here. Previously all GG members were damned for not condemning bad behavior. When it's revealed that they do, and is systematically ignored by mainstream bloggers, that's no longer enough. GG members now have an additional layer of responsibility to somehow prevent anyone from trolling…
Pinsof has re-emerged as a GamerGate advocate, taking to platforms like Reddit and Twitter to attack the games press on various issues, including what he said was a blacklist against him conducted by various gaming media outlets due to his history with Destructoid. (Which, as best we can tell, is not true...)
Well, that's nice to hear from you. But it doesn't mean much if the media doesn't acknowledge facts that go against their narrative. As you can see here, one blogger can effortlessly convince thousands of people here of falsehoods.
The only thing that might undermine that fact would be the possibility that American police are more likely to arrest innocent people than those in other 1st world nations, which is an assertion that lacks data to back it up. Also, the conviction of innocent people represents more of a failure in the prosecutorial…
His "assortment of weapons" consists of a katana, a BB gun, a pringles can, and an Xbox controller.
At some point, you have to trust that the people who's job it is to assess the validity of threats to public safety have a decent grasp on the validity of this particular threat.
You just said yourself that 95% of gamers want nothing to do with them. Either trolls are a new moral epidemic, or they're a trite crust that lives in the crevices of the internet. Ignoring them has worked pretty well previously, robbing them of the frightening power they so desperately seek. If it wasn't for moral…
Wow, this kind of puts GamerGate into a new context, don't you think?
Nothing has changed about the gaming community that's made it less inclusive. The only thing that's changed is that there is now a clickbait industry willing to bring our attention to the sad, lonely trolls on that have always lived in the dark corners of the internet. Previously, these losers were ignored and…
They've long disavowed him and reported him to Brianna Wu. Not that it matters much....
Is it possible that those people were banned, not for having feminist views, but for repeatedly violating wikipedia's rules?
Sadly, getting death threats is fairly common for any game developer.
Here's the thing: Brianna Wu is not the first game developer to death with death threats from online nut jobs. Ken Levine talked about his experience with these issues:
^^Example A of a scumbag MRA type. I'm sorry if my call to stop online threats has apparently angered you. While the rest of us are having a civil, constructive discussion, maybe you can take your incendiary trollposting somewhere else? It'd be great.
Yeah, she kind of undermines her central points a couple times in this piece. It's a little confusing, how one could start and concluded that these threats are credible, while underlining (in great detail) all the evidence downplaying their credibility.
Yeah, I think the authorities who have the most experience in dealing with stalking, harassment, and threat cases have dismissed your issues as non-threatening, because they are non-threatening.
Exclusive? No, there's tons of people that have been SWATed who have never said anything about GG. Including a lot of prominent gaming streamers. It's a common internet prank.