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WEEKEND, October 17-19, 2014 'How do you go after the cyber-mob?" GamerGate Angry ethics in journalism, but the For Jenson, the problem is less about the need for new laws than it is about the need to enforce those that exist. She video game playersonly thing they've produced in two months is harassment are harassing female gainst marginalized people Jennifer Allaway is a U.S researcher who studies di versity in the game industry. believes police need to be bet She has interviewed numer-ter educated on how the law amers; no one has said Veerender Jubbal, an as- een held responsible eravidtic based applies to online activity creator of the #StopGamer ous gamers and developers and says GamerGate is in no A lot of people, when they way reflective of the broadergo to report cyber-harassment video game community. Ac to the police, they feel like cording to Allaway's findings: they're talking to a brick wall," Gate2014 hashtag on Twitter Under the banner of “Gamer. Last week, game developer Gate," angry video game play- Brianna Wu fled her Boston ers are harassing and threat- home after her address was ening prominent women in posted on the Internet along- the game community and side r--- and death threats few, if any, are facing conseThe Twitter user responsible called Wu a "feminist asshat she said. Danielle Citron, a legal scholar at the University of 78 per cent of women and 71 per cent of men sup- port attempts to hire more women in the game industry Maryland, agrees. Her recent Crimes in Cyber- space, features interviews with Anita Sarkeesian and describes how initially, she was reluctant book, Hate ry 87 per cent of women and GamerGate began in Au and was upset she had mocked gust, when a diatribe about GamerGate game developer Zoe Quinn On Tuesday, feminist media surfaced online, written by an critic Anita Sarkeesian can ex-boyfriend and alleging she celled a lecture at Utah State slept with a journalist to en- University after the school sure a positive review for her received a threatening email. game Depression Quest. Angry Sarkeesian- who hails from users pounced, spreading the Toronto- was slated to speak allegations and sending Quinn about the portrayal of women threatening tweets and phone in video games calls 70 per cent of men want to a to see more female protag onists in video games hundreds of posts. It was daunt 83 per cent of women and ing, Citron said. "How 73 per cent of men believe diverse development teams create better-quality games. The FBI is investigating against Sarkeesianparticu- GamerGate supporters in (Sarkeesian's) spilled blood, argue it has sparked a discus and you will all bear witness to sion about bias in video game what feminist lies and journalism, while critics be have done to the men of Amer- lieve the movement is merely ica," the letter said. a front for misogynistic attacks. Despite the fact that many are illegal larly a bomb threat that was sent to the Game Developers We actually don't have Choice Awards in San Francis- legislation that's caught up with co last March and Citron is the nature of these threats," hopeful that some of the worst said York University professor offenders may actually end up This Jan. 17, 2013, photo, provided by Anita Sarkeesian, shows her with vintage video game machines in Minneapolis. ALEX LAZARA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS under the GamerGate banner threats or hate speech-no such as harass one has been held responsible Jennifer Jenson. "Right now, we before a court. "They say they're about of the activities carried out ment, slander and uttering or charged. SPOOKYOUR Our Halloween Collection in

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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