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posted by LaminatorX on Sunday October 12 2014, @02:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the whose-side-are-you-on? dept.

Brianna Wu, head of the independent gaming studio Giant Spacekat, was the target of a series of tweets containing death threats on Friday; one published her home address (since redacted). The poster's Twitter account has been disabled.

Wu responded on Friday night with the tweet:

Brianna Wu @Spacekatgal

The police just came by. Husband and I are going somewhere safe.

Remember, #gamergate isn't about attacking women.

GamerGate supporters denounced the threats and "doxxing" against Wu and disavowed the poster. However, several suspected that the tweets were a false flag created by anti-GamerGate forces:

Sun Knight @SunKnightO

@Sen_Armstrong @Spacekatgal @chatterwhiteman It's clearly either a troll or false flag shame that people actually think its legit.

 
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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @02:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @02:33PM (#105055)

    going on in the world? Talk about 1st world problems... just sickening.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @02:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @02:38PM (#105058)

    I completely agree, this LaminatorX guy needs to stop publishing clickbait submissions and other inane trash otherwise its no better than the green site.

  • (Score: 1) by Horse With Stripes on Sunday October 12 2014, @02:38PM

    by Horse With Stripes (577) on Sunday October 12 2014, @02:38PM (#105059)

    Death threats aren't just a "first world problem". Though in many parts of the world they don't threaten first, they just kill you.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @04:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @04:01PM (#105078)

    Let's talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:50PM (#105124)

      No, let's talk about technology, science, math, computers, and all that good stuff.

      I don't come here to read about petty squabbles over video game reviews, or petty squabbles over third-world Middle Eastern desert, or petty squabbles about thugs who attack the police and get shot.

      GIVE ME SUBMISSIONS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY!

      GIVE ME SUBMISSIONS ABOUT SCIENCE!

      GIVE ME SUBMISSIONS ABOUT MATHEMATICS!

      GIVE ME SUBMISSIONS ABOUT COMPUTERS!

      GIVE ME SUBMISSIONS ABOUT HOW DEBIAN IS BEING KILLED BY SYSTEMD!

      GIVE ME SUBMISSIONS ABOUT THINGS THAT TRULY MATTER!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:55PM (#105130)

        Don't click on it, submit stories?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:59PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:59PM (#105137)

          "Not clicking on it" doesn't change the fact that these stories take up a valuable front page slot. That's the problem with them.

          Yeah, I can ignore them easily enough. But there's nothing we can do about the lost space on the front page, and the lost time between good submissions. Those are the real problems, and the only way to avoid them is by not having shitty submissions get to the front page to begin with.

          Submitting more stories doesn't help, either, because they're blocked by shitty submissions if those shitty submissions get onto the front page.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:03PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:03PM (#105142)

            > "Not clicking on it" doesn't change the fact that these stories take up a valuable front page slot.

            Post your bitcoin wallet id and I'll reimburse you the 0.001 cents that it cost you.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:07PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:07PM (#105144)

            Boo hoo. Valuable first page slots. Now who's bitching about first world problems.

            This is a huge problem that is pervasive in tech and gamergate is just the surface. You're part of the old guard who is still clueless and scared.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:13PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:13PM (#105156)

              Yeah, I live in the first world. My problems matter to me. I really don't give a fuck about problems involving third worlders, whether they're in Africa, the Middle East, or St. Louis.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:31PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:31PM (#105169)

            Articles like these get the most posts by a large margin, so its pretty clear the SN community cares about these kinds of things more than anything else.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:34PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:34PM (#105172)

              Nah, its more like a lowest-common-denominator effect.
              Any asshole can have an opinion on social issues and think they are an expert since they live in society.
              Most other stories require at least a modicum of actual expertise in the particular topic.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:38PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:38PM (#105175)

                Sadly, most of the comments are just troll posts. Little discussion actually happens. But, looking at the numbers and the lack of better submissions... Look at it from an MBA's perspective, because raw data matters even if it doesn't really matter. If you want better articles, submit them and comment on them.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:49PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:49PM (#105180)

                  Most of the Linux and programming submissions I've seen have very good discussion. We need more of those.

                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @07:37PM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @07:37PM (#105214)

                    OH NOES! SYSTEMD IS KILLING LINUX! is not discussion. Although granted, those happen everywhere except Linux and programming articles, where they belong.

                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:07PM

                      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:07PM (#105233)

                      That's some of the most important discussion that's even possible. Systemd is the worst threat Linux has ever faced. It's worse than anything Microsoft or SCO could have ever imagined doing to harm Linux. It needs to be talked about, all the time, and everywhere.

                      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @10:48PM

                        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @10:48PM (#105321)

                        Nobody gives a fuck about Linux, just you crybaby neckbeards throwing temper tantrums. Keep it up and nobody will ever use it; after all, who wants to use an OS that's primarily used by whiny little children who lash out when they don't get their way? Throwing your tantrums into everyone's face will only make people despise Linix and the 'tards who use it, instead of just ignoring it. Now when somebody hears "Linux", they think of you assholes instead of "What's that?" Congratulations on killing Linux!

                        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @10:54PM

                          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @10:54PM (#105322)

                          You seem awfully angry. Did you just get systemd unexpectedly installed on your Linux workstation, too? I know the pain, it happened to me. All I did was update my Debian installation and sonofabitch, systemd was there, my computer had problems booting, and I couldn't even read the log files because they were using some godawful binary format. At least it hasn't happened again since I've switched to FreeBSD.

                        • (Score: 1) by pgc on Monday October 13 2014, @01:57PM

                          by pgc (1600) on Monday October 13 2014, @01:57PM (#105548)

                          You don't care about Linux; What are you doing on Soylentnews ?

                          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 14 2014, @07:50AM

                            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 14 2014, @07:50AM (#105864)

                            You don't care about Linux; What are you doing on Soylentnews ?

                            Because SN is nothing but a Linux repository, full of articles discussing Linux and nothing else, right?

      • (Score: 1) by pgc on Monday October 13 2014, @01:59PM

        by pgc (1600) on Monday October 13 2014, @01:59PM (#105549)

        Mod parent up.

        • (Score: 1) by pgc on Monday October 13 2014, @02:05PM

          by pgc (1600) on Monday October 13 2014, @02:05PM (#105555)

          News about a flamewar that nobody really gives a flying f*ck about. News please, not this gossip.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:03PM (#105095)

    Any editor will^H^H^H^H should react when they see that screenshot stack of tweets labeled "Death to Brianna". That is both breaking news and a discussion breaker.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by bornagainpenguin on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:48PM

    by bornagainpenguin (3538) on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:48PM (#105177)
    ...a woman has been treated badly on the intarwebs? We must stop everything right now and treat her with the attention she needs to get over the traumatic experience!

    /s

    Has anyone confirmed the police report yet, or has it too made its way directly to the FBI without the local police knowing about it?
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @01:41AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @01:41AM (#105386)

      I don't like how your comment is worded, but I think there's some value in there, so let me rephrase:

      Someone received a death threat on the Internet for publicly taking a stance someone else on the Internet didn't like.

      Notable, sure, but newsworthy? I'm sure tons of people get death threats every day. Of those, a small but significant number are credible (really, it's not that hard to get someone's address in this day and age if you already have their name, email, and possibly employment info). Now, one can't help but ask at this point, why is it that of those, the only ones that get blown up with news coverage are about female feminists (or children, I suppose, vis a vis cyberbullying)?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @07:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @07:22PM (#105199)

    First world problem indeed