Dnia poniedziałek, 27 października 2014 19:51:18 Griffin Boyce pisze:
Dāvis Mosāns wrote:
GamerGate is not about that, you've read too much into some propaganda. I know only single such case about 1 game. And I haven't seen any harassers admitting that they do it for GamerGate or journalism, but IMO they're just trolls who like to use this opportunity. They like publicity (even if it's bad) and that's what they're getting. I'm not sure if you can imagine this mindset, but I can't deny that it must be exciting to read news story about death threats you wrote. It actually encourages to do it again. There's well know internet Rule 14 "Do not argue with trolls — it means that they win." so as usual - Don't feed the trolls.
First of all, it is never *ever* someone's fault when random internet creeps stalk and harass them. If continuing to have an opinion and be in an industry is "feeding the trolls" then you should seriously consider changing your views on the subject.
As for the rest, I'd like to quote Meredith Patterson:
"A person was cruelly emotionally abused. That person called out their abuser, and in overwhelming majority, a community which claims as one of its defining characteristics an opposition to gaslighting, siloing and all other forms of abuse rallied around the *perpetrator*. Why did that happen?"
By Newsweek's count, Brianna Wu and Anita Sarkeesian got nearly 80'000 twitter comments in response to their views on GamerGate itself. Eighty thousand -- that's more than all journalists and news outlets combined (including Kotaku). Tell me this isn't about the ongoing harassment of women who have an opinion. I don't watch AS's videos and find her conclusions to be quite thin at times. Doesn't matter -- she has the fundamental right to voice an opinion.
Also, this: http://hackthepatriarchy.tumblr.com/post/101088838567/egalitariste-pepperoni... -- Pozdr rysiek