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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 Monday October 13 2014, @04:30AM
And what corruption is that? Please explain in detail and post links directly supporting your claim.
(Score: 1) by boltronics on Monday October 13 2014, @08:47AM
I already posted a bunch of links that summarise the situation nicely.
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=4243&cid=102932 [soylentnews.org]
Specifically about some of the collusion that has since came up:
WTF is the GameJournoPros Google Group? #GamerGate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQMOY9HcOf4&list=UUxXUQuvoiIAlpM2osoAitjQ [youtube.com]
So I just spoke with a member of GameJournoPro's email list... #GamerGate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTxf6W3kdwU&list=UUxXUQuvoiIAlpM2osoAitjQ [youtube.com]
On the 28th of August, we had all these sources basically tell us that gamers are dead:
Gamesasutra - 'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over.
https://archive.today/l1kTW [archive.today]
Kotaku - We Might Be Witnessing The 'Death of An Identity'
https://archive.today/YlBhH [archive.today]
Polygon - An awful week to care about video games
https://archive.today/rkvO8#selection-1195.0-1195.39 [archive.today]
Dan Golding - 'Gamers' are over
http://dangolding.tumblr.com/post/95985875943/the-end-of-gamers [tumblr.com]
ArsTechnica - The death of the "gamers" and the women who killed them
https://archive.today/i928J#selection-567.0-567.57 [archive.today]
This strongly hinted at collusion, and it was through enough digging that we learned of the GameJournoPros Google Group.
There are a hundred other issues I haven't touched on. If you're not clued up on what is going on by now, you're probably not going to read these anyway.
It's GNU/Linux dammit!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @10:34AM
A bunch of games media outlets posting more-or-less the same story in a short timespan strongly hints that games media has exactly as much creativity as mainstream media. Oh, look: CNN is running stories on Furgeson - get a team down there right away! Media is a conversation among journalists that we're all allowed to watch, so yeah, when a new story "breaks," you should expect every outlet to post their special take on that story. Conspiracy not required.
(Score: 1) by boltronics on Monday October 13 2014, @11:15AM
Call it what you will, it turned out to be both warranted and helpful in this case.
It's GNU/Linux dammit!