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Salem witch trials, anyone?
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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](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/691/215/331.png "What the actual f--- are we supposed to do about this")
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![1) Well, because of the influence of these 'consumers' that you guys claim are so important, they literally have to rush from one story to the next or they will lose their jobs 2) Can you tell me what's wrong with these articles? I really hate to tell you this, but by journalistic standards they are more than adequate. Their claims are sourced as well as can be EDIT: Opinion is opinion. I don't like it when people try to group op-eds together with actual journalism permalink save parent report give gold reply [-] Now-Do. Classical-Gas 1 point an hour ago The fact that not a single death threat, doxxing etc... that's happened to a pro-GGer has been reported on in the MSM at all? I mean, some f----- up stuff has happened: https://twitter.com/PlayDangerously/status/525041932037156864 Why did someone from Anti-GG filed a false police report and possibly attempt to swat him. https://twitter.com/PlayDangerously/status/525832157126602752 Why did someone from Anti-GG doxx and then (that same person or another) mailed a knife telling King of Pol to kill himself. https://twitter.com/Kingofpol/status/525755692318457856 King of Pol has 911 called on him https://twitter.com/Kingofpol/status/526920184129658883 TB has stated more than once that he has received death threats. Some of which started before he made ANY statement regarding GG Milo has a syringe with unknown liquid sent to his house AFTER receiving 90 rolls of TP. https://twitter.com /Nero/status/513666683916255232/photo/1 Escapist under DDOS attack directed specifically at the Pro-GG forum. https://twitter.com/archon/status /513365103329423360 GGFeminist receives death threat https://twitter.com/GGfeminist/status/514238397653590016 GG supporter loses his job https://twitter.com/j_millerworks/status/513198848542781440 Boogie2988 receives threats. https://twitter.com/Boogie2988/status/522156760623484928 [-] Janvs [score hidden] 51 minutes ago Here's a great reason why none of those instances of harassment made the MSM Brianna Wu, Zoe Quinn, and Anita Sarkeesian's attacks could be verified by a third party -- the twitter account that attacked BW was well document, zQ's harassment was out in the open, and the death threat called in on AS could be seen by anyone. This is how news works I am not excusing harassment against Pro-GG people, but this is why it hasn't ended up in the news a journalist can't just take their word for it. permalink save parent report give gold reply [-] Now-Do. Classical-Gas 1 point 45 minutes ago That list includes tweets with photographic evidence of things happening. For crying out loud, Cernovich is suing the woman who swatted him. Milo's a journalist, are you saying he'd lie? If so it doesn't really help your defence of the media. BoogieB is a well-known YouTuber, YouTube would assist with uncovering the comment. There are numerous death threat tweets against pro-GG members, what's the difference with Brianna Wu's? Total Biscuit is a well-known personality, he'd assist if a journalist asked him for a story permalink save parent edit delete reply -1 Janvs [score hidden] 38 minutes ago For crying out loud, Cernovich is suing the woman who swatted him. Milo's a journalist, are you saying he'd lie? If so it doesn't really help your defence of the media rnovich is not reprehensible), and Milo is a pundit, not a journalist Try some perspective. Ce few months is they'll print anything that they think eople will consume. If they're not reporting on GamerGate harassment, it's because there's nothing there to report If the story was there, a media outlet would run it. That's how news works ermalink save parent report give gold reply - Now_Do_Classical_Gas 1 point 33 minutes ago if that wasn't the in ed doing i Brianna Wu gets tweets from one person who claims to identify and ALL OF GAMERGATE IS RESPONSIBLE according t one know ory, jus ernovich is whole bunch of lawyers were getting women in the gaming industry getting harassed is a story No one would know who BW, AS, and ZQ are if they hadn't come under attack at the same time permalink save parent report give gold reply Now Do Classical Gas That's not news, that us nc you guys could produce enoug nce not scr permalink save parent report give gold reply Now_Do_Classical_Gas 1 point 23 minutes f horrible abuse being hurled our way. How ou n ignoring all the harassment happening to our side, it is creating a ative? Or do vou being I don't think it's as clear cut that it's either collusion or lazy reporting, but I see all those articles and I see a trend. The news media gets stuff wrong sometimes, but competing newspapers rarely get the same story wrong all at the same time ou think it is. I know that GG s all the articles written by the MSM and think e just looks li nts nc or vour si rsa or m undergone, but aside from Brad Wardell convincing permalink save parent report give gold reply Now Do Classical Gas wom e police report on a lawyer, admitting to this the woman, docume evidence of her filing the report, none of this is proof, but when Anita Sarke proof? ays The NRA Sucks D---' and someone thro a brick through my window, would you s 'oh, must be third-party trol permalink save parent report give gold reply Now Do Classical Gas Any reporting on GamerGate that doesn't mention the well-know t that abuse is ha nce is not ne score hi l-knots oppn od is not compellin ence that the is in nts permalink save parent report give gold reply](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/865/537/fc3.png "fc3.png")
