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

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) by Magic Oddball on Sunday October 12 2014, @09:14PM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Sunday October 12 2014, @09:14PM (#105267) Journal

    Okay, which sounds more neutral:

    1) Site that can be edited by anybody (including both sides in a conflict), requires any statements of fact be backed by acceptable evidence (articles, books, etc.) and demands relatively balanced coverage to reach an overall neutral point of view.

    2) Site written by people on one side of a conflict.

    I think I'd have to go with Door Number One. ;-)

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  • (Score: 1) by GoonDu on Monday October 13 2014, @09:55AM

    by GoonDu (2623) on Monday October 13 2014, @09:55AM (#105472)

    >The neutrality of this article is disputed.
    The article is locked because of edit disputes so it's not exactly neutral as you think. Granted, one can think that it's pro-gamergate people doing vandalism but one could also easily consider that the other side is doing it as well. If not, why would this topic be brought to Jimmy Wales' attention? http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/840952-gamergate [knowyourmeme.com] . Bot sides are guilty.

    Seriously, the reason why this issue had been hotly debated is because both sides share some wrongs and rights at the same time. The whole thing would have subsided if not the 'gamer is dead' article which had been written for maximum sensationalism and the mishandling of idiotic journalists who would not know how to PR and damage control. Now they are simply burning from the acts they have committed.

  • (Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Monday October 13 2014, @10:59AM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Monday October 13 2014, @10:59AM (#105484)

    Except there are more on one side, and they've been undoing and having the other side topic banned from editing. The anti side gets the article locked, waits for the unlock jumps in makes a bunch of unfavourable edits, undo the favourable ones, has the article locked again. That's part of the reason it went to dispute resolution. The anti side is weaponizing wikipedia to influence opinion and spread misinformation.

    It has been getting better since the dispute resolution, still on going I think, but like I said just read the talk page and you'll see pretty quickly there are issues with the article being one sided. I suspect it's only getting better now because IF no progress is made it'll go to mediation, which could unpredictably end up bad for either side.

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