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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 Vanderhoth on Monday October 13 2014, @11:54AM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Monday October 13 2014, @11:54AM (#105496)

    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.

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