GamerGate (because censorship is dumb)

[rysiek]

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-pepperonideluxe-a-comic-about

-- 
Pozdr
rysiek
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