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Game Developer Wu Leaves Home after Death Threats

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

An anonymous coward writes:

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: 2, Informative) by tathra on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:49PM

    by tathra (3367) on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:49PM (#105123)

    "social justice warrior"

    stopped reading right there. that you even think such a thing exists shows you're an idiot, and if thats not enough, you're using it as a strawman (which also proves you're an idiot) so there's still no reason to read past it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:52PM (#105127)

    Now you're arguing against your own existence?

    That may be the ultimate form of hypocrisy: claiming that you don't even exist when you clearly do, because you're in front of us trying to make the argument that you don't exist!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:57PM (#105132)

    I prefer "Social Justice Magic User" but for special days I play a "Social Justice Rogue" on the net. That's because I got mad social justice skillz!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @01:25AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @01:25AM (#105382)

      I prefer "Social Justice Magic User" but for special days I play a "Social Justice Rogue" on the net. That's because I got mad social justice skillz!

      On another site I lurk on someone suggested that they would be going with "Social Justice Bard". I kinda like that one.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:57PM (#105133)

    It's real [reddit.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @09:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @09:12PM (#105266)

    Why is tathra's absolutely dumb comment modded up to 3, Informative? It's asinine. Of course there are people called 'social justice warriors'.