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Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam

posted by on Monday May 08 2017, @12:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the gamergate-just-keeps-getting-weirder dept.

a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- writes:

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/

Also: http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/03/16/25023243/matt-hickey-has-to-pay-332000-for-his-fake-porn-scam-judge-rules

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

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by hemocyanin on Monday May 08 2017, @01:47AM (2 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Monday May 08 2017, @01:47AM (#506115) Journal

    If he'd bothered to pay them and put it online I think he'd be just another small time pornographer.

    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."

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  • (Score: 1) by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- on Monday May 08 2017, @05:08AM (1 child)

    by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) on Monday May 08 2017, @05:08AM (#506192)

    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.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @07:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @07:12AM (#506226)

      > 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.