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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 mtrycz on Sunday October 12 2014, @07:49PM
The more I try, the less I get all of it.
Is anyone so kind as to write a reasonable recap of what is happening, who are the parties and what are their interests?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:07PM
http://www.apixelatedview.com/quinnspiracy/ [apixelatedview.com]
https://medium.com/@cainejw/a-narrative-of-gamergate-and-examination-of-claims-of-collusion-with-4chan-5cf6c1a52a60 [medium.com]
http://apgnation.com/archives/2014/09/09/6977/truth-gaming-interview-fine-young-capitalists [apgnation.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:14PM
Those are heavily biased to favor one particular party.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:20PM
Let's let mtrycz decide that.
bias != untrue.
untrue != information I don't like.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:27PM
> bias != untrue.
Neither does bias == true.
But half-the-story == bias.
> Let's let mtrycz decide that.
He didn't ask for biased truth. He asked for a "reasonable recap" - bias basically rules that out and he's back again where he started.
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Sunday October 12 2014, @09:00PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @09:17PM
This. Unless you are a very dedicated gamer, this shitstorm is not even worth looking into. If you are a very dedicated gamer, you already knew the state of the gaming community and industry long before this gamergate scandal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @09:18PM
That's weird. I've read tons of articles about gamergate and whatever they were called before they adopted that name and I haven't noticed the term "red flag" even once. What does it mean?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @09:29PM
A red flag is something that draws your attention and warns you of danger. I suppose GP meant 'false flag', which means a false alarm of sorts, in this case either the threat was empty words by a troll, or staged by sockpuppets (assuming it was indeed a false flag).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @10:25PM
Hhhm, so if he meant accusations of "false flag" are frequently made by both sides, I haven't seen any such accusation by one side. Especially of the kind that get the police involved. Do you know of any?
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Monday October 13 2014, @10:59PM
(Score: 1) by mvar on Sunday October 12 2014, @10:22PM
what someone else posted earlier: 1st world problems (for which no sane person who actually values his precious free time would ever give a fuck)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @11:48PM
Except, of course, for the part where people are getting driven from their homes by death threats.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @05:57AM
Anything related to having a home is a first-world problem for sure. Come to think of it, death threats are too, because outside of the first-world they skip the threats and just kill you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @10:56AM
#GamerGate is a movement claiming to be about ethics in videogame journalism. Here's a pro-#GamerGate site listing their grievances. [giz.moe] Particularly, they claim the accusations of misogyny are a massive media campaign to distract from their ethics concerns. There's also a good amount of backlash against Anita Sarkeesian's recent feminist critiques of mainstream videogames and Leigh Alexander's article about the stereotype of gamers as only being 18-34 cishet men as being long obsolete (the flamebait title "'Gamers' are over" [gamasutra.com] didn't win her any friends among #GamerGate).
The anti-#GamerGate side, for which is suffices to just link Wikipedia on the Gamergate controversy [wikipedia.org], asserts that #GamerGate is really about driving women away from the videogame industry, the main evidence being this article and the fact that the main visible grievance of the #GamerGate group was an organized disinformation campaign about the indie game developer Zoe Quinn started by her ex-boyfriend.
My take on it is that anyone who claims to be using #GamerGate to confront ethics issues is acting in bad faith, but obviously those standing by the #GamerGate flag think the people who respond to claims of ethics violations with claims of harassment are derailing.
(Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Monday October 13 2014, @11:54AM
I've admitted, I'm pro-GamerGate, kudos to you. This is extremely close to what is actually going on. However it started, GamerGate didn't take off until the "Gamers are Over" articles. Alexander was just one of 10+ articles that were written within 24 hours claiming Gamers were dead/over. Then as it turned out the GameJournoPro e-mails were found that demonstrated there was collusion taking place. Although some people give a little too much weight to the GJP e-mails. I'm a professional and I talk with professionals in my industry, which is kind of like what's going on in the GJP thread. What we don't do is talk about pushing specific vendors, as they did, and discuss spinning narratives to slander and discredit our clients, as they also did.
Again kudos to you for taking a seemingly neutral position, although I'm sure me commenting it's neutral will end up getting you screamed at for not supporting the misinformation campaign... Sorry.
"Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @08:31PM
Snort! Ummm...yeah. And I'm President of the Trilateral Commission. I run the Universe.
Anyone who thinks that this is about concerns over ethics in videogame journalism needs to turn off their computer, step away from their keyboard, and go mingle in the real world for about a week or two (at least). Seriously. Some people just need to get a real life for their own good.