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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:40PM
Being in gaming development and having any sort of personal relationship with games journalists is clearly an ethics violation. Why put ethics in quotes. It is not a scary word. It is not made up. It is the study of what is right and what is wrong. Conflicts of interest are thought of as wrong, therefore if someone's sex life and professional life overlap, then it is unethical.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:55PM
> Being in gaming development and having any sort of personal relationship with games journalists is clearly an ethics violation.
How so? Seriously. I expect you to claim the extremist position that any relationship is defacto evidence of an "ethics" violation. Which is just bullshit. Ethics violations actually require a violation. Unless the reporter actually gives favorable coverage to the person they are involved with there is no "ethics" violation.
> Why put ethics in quotes.
I put it in quotes to make it evident that I think the definition people like you are using is absurd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:58PM
Wrong. People can have relationships with whomever they want. Reviewing your partner's or ex-partner's work is an ethics violation, but that didn't happen here, so its irrelevant, nothing more than a red herring.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:11PM
How DARE you bring common sense and responsibility into this discussion!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:15PM
Responding to yourself is stupid and easy to spot. You can sock puppet all you want, but its pretty obvious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:19PM
I don't think it is a sockpuppet. I think there really is more than one person who thinks that logic is impeccable.
There are a whole bunch of them in gamergate. It's kind of a requirement to join.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:27PM
Nah, I'm pretty sure its all that one guy who thinks every AC poster is Tork. Even this post is by him, and yours definitely is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:41PM
That's just ridiculous. By that token, it seems like no two people in the same professional field should be allowed to communicate outside of job. Ethics, or at least publishing ethics, isn't about building impersonal walls between humans, it's about managing your relationships to avoid conflicts of interest.
Sleeping with the person who recommends your product, or who recommends you for promotion: conflict of interest. Recusing yourself from reviewing your girlfriend's product: ethical. Quitting your job because you're attracted to someone who works in the field: Hollywood melodrama.