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

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: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday May 08 2017, @11:59AM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 08 2017, @11:59AM (#506298)

    People do desperate things for money.

    Its a valid kink arguably more socially acceptable than most, plus if a girl gets caught she can just cry "financial distress" and people will white knight her, oh the poor baby.

    Its sort of like the wearers of three square inches of cloth bikini, girls willing to "be filmed for online pr0n" are going to tend toward the hotter side of the spectrum in order to feel good about the extreme exhibitionist aspect. Meanwhile being in that physical / psychological category generally correlates extremely strongly with financial success. I'm just saying the kind of girl who will be chill with being a pr0n actress is likely to be pretty well off financially in her day jobs as a booth babe / "secretary" / sales / real estate agent / bartender / waitress / stripper type work. Whereas a more traditional feminist, 400 pounds, short purple hair, angry voice, etc, is less likely to be hauling in money than the hottie who is supposedly "doing pr0n for money".

    Usually people who make a lot of money but never have any money are snorting it. Now a days its more heroin and meth but in the old days it was coke, everyone in the 80s/90s had some coworker(s) making as much money as I did but they never had 25 cents for a can of soda much less pay for lunch and they always had "the sniffles" from snorting all that coke. I worked with at least three guys and four girls like that over those two decades at different companies. I'm sure a girl with a severe coke problem could make more money legally than I make today, but its simply amazing how fast people can snort it up. In that situation I don't really see a problem with pr0n as a coke service (PaaCS?) because addicts will do anything to get the money and getting filmed is probably the least societal destructive way I can imagine to acquire the money.

    So when you combine the above, you get women into it as a kink which is OK, or they've correctly found the least culturally destructive way to fund their coke habit, which is also OK.

    Desperate is like people selling blood plasma.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 09 2017, @04:02AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday May 09 2017, @04:02AM (#506736) Journal

    > Whereas a more traditional feminist, 400 pounds, short purple hair, angry voice, etc

    Oh go to Hell. Number one, most of us don't look like this (I'm six foot and about 170, and yes, am losing weight, and no, do not have unnatural hair) and number two, what the fuck does it matter what someone looks like as far as his or her arguments are concerned? You reveal, perhaps unintentionally, far too much about what you are in the dark with things like this.

    Oh, and number three, why don't you go do some research as to the kind of desperation that gets some people into situations like this? If you think it's all cokeheads or shallow-brained bimbos who don't want to work, you're so far off the mark you managed to hit escape velocity.

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...