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Sorry if I wasn’t clear: He certainly didn’t start GamerGate, but he absolutely stoked it in order to test the techniques he used for the 2016 election.

I interpret his “I’m sorry he got hurt” as “I’m sorry for myself that I got caught”

If the police were there when the guy was swinging the hammer why didn’t they FUCKING SHOOT HIM

1. because he’s dumb

Fuckin absolutely bonkers that this awful, stupid shit comes back up like this. I lurked KiA for a while just out of morbid curiosity and it really was a collection of some of the dumbest, most reactionary idiots around. I still remember when they treated Gamasutra (RIP that old name) and its press release section…

1. Because he refuses to take accountability. He doesn’t think it’s his fault he got hurt; it just “happened.” Somehow.

We really do live in a time of diminished personal accountability.  “I’m sorry that he got hurt.”  He didn’t “get” hurt.  YOU HURT HIM.  

1. Why did he apologize if he plead not guilty.

regulating huge mergers and monopolies are kind of a big deal.

Unfortunately, over the last generation or two Congress has done a great job convincing the American people that  it can’t control anything. We assume anything more ambitious than “keep payroll going” is beyond their jurisdiction. 

It’s a major U.S. business. Maybe it’s not making steel or building computers, but it is a billion-dollar industry so when it takes part in prima facie fuckery, it should get at least some scrutiny.

I’ll applaud any time Congress gets off its collective ass to do anything that isn’t blatantly self-serving and/or detrimental to the country as a whole, so let’s just call this one a win.

You know what? Fucking awesome. I know there are bigger problems in the world, but this shouldn’t have been one of them in the first place. Fuck Zaslav.

or a studio removed the words “HBO” from a streaming service, or a social media company changed the name Twitter to “X.”

As someone remarked, it’s like burning down a building for the insurance money.”

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Wait a second, I thought that capitalism was supposed to make everything work optimally. Was that ... propaganda?