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, @06:13PM
> It shows a pattern of shitty/unethical behavior.
Is she a journalist? No. Case fucking closed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @09:37PM
So because she's not a journalist she's incapable of unethical behavior?
Or do non-journalists have some type of diplomatic immunity to it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @10:22PM
So because she's not a journalist she's incapable of unethical behavior?
What part of "journalistic ethics" do you fail to understand?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @10:38PM
The "ethics" part. It does mean "everything done by somebody I like", making "ethical violation" mean "everything done by somebody I don't like", right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @12:09AM
So journalistic ethics are the only kind of ethics?
And unethical behavior by journalists can only involve journalists?
Because if a non-journalist is evolved everyone is a sexist pig?
Am I doing it right?