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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.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday October 12 2014, @03:38PM
who is a developer working ... on games like Sharknado 2 for mobile, is voicing the primary criticism
I broke out laughing at that line. Apparently its not a parody but it sounds like one.
First off, WRT BS-dash-gate being used to name all scandals, is something that stopped being cool when gen-x-ers parents were hippies reading about the Nixon administration 40 years ago. Earth to journalists, its not cool, its not retro, now go away and try a little harder, just a tiny bit. Using that kind of terminology in 2014 makes the user sound like "that guy" who thinks the Lawrence Whelk show is hip and trendy.
Secondly I see nothing in "gamer-gate" coverage at this time but B-list C-list and Z-list "celebrities" trying to get PR off it. There really isn't a story or narrative anymore, just pimping for clicks and credibility. Its like The Onion "Area Man" stories with real names. As some "earth to journalist" advice, if your story could run unchanged in The Onion then you're probably doing it wrong, unless you work for the Onion or a competitor.
Thirdly I don't know who I can't stand more, little manchild gamers with very narrow provincial outlook on game playing in general resulting in shitty games for everyone and they're also rude to chicks so they have both extremely bad taste and bad manners, or social justice warriors trying to white knight and build consensus by shouting everyone else down and get PR so they're political hacks of the lowest order, or sleazy clickbait journalists and site owners trying to make a buck off the whole thing basically just your run of the mill money grubbing crooks. Are they trying to cooperate to distract us from a real story, or are they just Z-list fools doing what Z-list fools do best aka screwing up, or ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @04:25PM
Ah, the fallacy of false balance.
Suckers in the naive every time.