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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @07:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @07:10AM (#105449)

    Harassment is bad. Period. Worse still is legitimate death threat. Wu does not deserve this but I think we have to take into account on reaction to getting harassed. If a person is getting actual death threats, the most rational thing to do is to report to the authority AND stay quiet. Legitimate or not, complaining or even mentioning it on twitter is just going to stoke the ego of victim's harasser, seeing that he/she/they have the victim's attention and they know they have achieved their goal (that is to watch people reacting over it). This also sends another message to others that harassment is 'fun' seeing how it got a rise out of people. This just simply perpetuate the problem even further.

    And if they are legitimate death threat and they are hell bent on ruining the victim, no amount of sympathy from twitter is going to guarantee the safety of the victim, trust the authority for the job. The last thing on the victim's mind should be tweeting this to his/her follower. Note this does not mean the victim does not have to suffer in silence, the victim can depend on his/her loved ones.

    And of course, assessing whether a threat is valid or not is hard and it's up to the victim's discretion but declaring it over the internet is not good in that regards.