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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, @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.