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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @02:19AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @02:19AM (#506131)

    All during this time, cisgendered white male Hickey had been saying that all PIV sex is rape on behalf of social justice warriors

    Ooops I hit the wrong button.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 08 2017, @02:22AM (1 child)

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday May 08 2017, @02:22AM (#506133) Journal

    Is that a new google translate service? what's the url? :P

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Monday May 08 2017, @12:01PM

      by VLM (445) on Monday May 08 2017, @12:01PM (#506300)

      www.reddit.com