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Oneangrygamer.net notes:
"Tech journalist, male feminist, and anti-#GamerGate critic, Matt Hickey has been fined $332,000 for his fake porn agency recruitment scam that he used as a front in order to have sex with young women and take nude pictures of the women."
"Hickey had been running the porn agency scam since 2006."
"All during this time Hickey had been advocating for sex-negativity on behalf of third-wave feminists. Hickey adopted the activism of a male feminist, attacking companies and the tech industry for its alleged "sexism", including chastising Microsoft for hiring gogo dancers for an after party at the Game Developers Conference.. Hickey previously wrote for The Stranger, Forbes and Gizmodo."
Read the whole story here: http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2017/04/matt-hickey-anti-gamergate-journalist-fined-332000-for-porn-agency-scam/28169/
And the website he's accused of operating [NSFW] : https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20110208064017/http://www.newseattletalent.com/
Related legal docs: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3517893-DEFAULTJUDGMENT.html
Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
(Score: 3, Interesting) by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- on Monday May 08 2017, @01:26AM (5 children)
Well, the Russian's supposedly once designated prostitution a crime of vagrancy, and I'd say this is just a step removed. Desperate and foolish people do desperately foolish things. As far as going online goes, apparently he's being fined for NOT putting these people online. He just wanted sex with them (or that's how I read the charges), and the photography was a prop. So, go figure, he doesn't get these women into porn and the government charges him with fraud. If he'd bothered to pay them and put it online I think he'd be just another small time pornographer.
But nasty wanna-be pimp angle aside, the guy was a virulent "male feminist" while he allegedly exploited women with his side business (or so the charges go). I think it supports the narrative that online do-gooders may not be all they pretend to be. They may be just as bad or worse as the people they're accusing. Online hypocrisy, who'd have thunk?
https://newrepublic.com/article/114112/anonymouth-linguistic-tool-might-have-helped-jk-rowling
(Score: 4, Funny) by hemocyanin on Monday May 08 2017, @01:47AM (2 children)
Exactly -- why go to such extreme lengths to save a few hundred bucks?
As to the second point, I read a funny joke along the lines of: "So many homophobic bigots turn out to be gay, I'm afraid I might be a spider."
(Score: 1) by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- on Monday May 08 2017, @05:08AM (1 child)
I think he was some kind of respectable writer for crunchbase, etc. and maybe he was the "star" of these interviews. So I'm guessing he wanted to avoid the publicity? Who knows.
https://newrepublic.com/article/114112/anonymouth-linguistic-tool-might-have-helped-jk-rowling
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @07:12AM
> So I'm guessing he wanted to avoid the publicity? Who knows.
Or he's just a run-of-the-mill sociopath who figured if he could trick them rather than pay them, then he should obviously trick them and save a buck.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday May 09 2017, @07:29AM (1 child)
One of course has the right to be critcal of the feminist clique (again, individuals) for not sounding him out properly. Feminism as a concept has no defence against infiltration. No abstract sociological concept does, obviously.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- on Tuesday May 09 2017, @03:18PM
I see it the same way. How could it be otherwise? If anything, it reinforces the feminist critique.
https://newrepublic.com/article/114112/anonymouth-linguistic-tool-might-have-helped-jk-rowling