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To suggest that the targeted harassment of women (and the complete avoidance of significantly targeting anybody else) was the result of “a small minority of tro
by vertex-four 8y ago
To suggest that the targeted harassment of women (and the complete avoidance of significantly targeting anybody else) was the result of “a small minority of trolls” who didn’t have the support of everybody using that banner is laughable, especially given that GamerGate had an explicit start with the harassment of a woman.
- StanislavPetrov 8y agoTo suggest that Gamergate was about the "targeted harassment of women" and not censorship in gaming is a complete mischaracterization of the issue - one that has been repeatedly pushed by those on the pro-censorship side.
- lindydonna 8y agoIf that is true, you should be able to point to articles or statements where game developers advocated censorship. I've talked to Brianna Wu. I've followed her work. She has never advocated censorship.
- ng12 8y agoWhat does Brianna Wu have to do with GamerGate? AFAIK she was a target because of her being a controversial character, not anything GamerGate-related.
- lindydonna 8y agoWell, she was targeted by GamerGate. Lots of people who were not involved in the original drama were targeted later.
- vertex-four 8y agoSo... exactly why did women come under significantly more harassment than men during the GamerGate debacle, as evidenced by various newspapers during the event? Nathan Grayson, the person who was meant to have committed the ethical violation of writing about someone he had slept with, received a fraction of the harassment that the woman he had slept with did. And of course none of that has anything to do with free speech issues - but it’s verifiably the start of when the #GamerGate hashtag was used. So somehow the movement supposedly entirely swivelled from ethics in video game journalism to being pro free speech at some undefined point, while its targets shared a common characteristic?