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Gamergate has a pretty good structural mapping to the confederate flag, with misogyny replacing racism and journalism ethics replacing states rights.
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Thunder Moose posted:Serious post: I thought it all began with Rome 2 when the game was realized in a really poor form (unplayable) despite a lot of review companies giving it like 9/10s and 10/10s. Gamergate started with one of those periodic lashings out by weirdoes at a woman they disliked for some reason. It was marketed (sometimes sincerely, never correctly) as a revolt against unethical games journalism, which drew in a few well-meaning people and led to some false history, but even then the majority of the time and effort was spent on complaining about 'SJWs' and attacking (mostly female) critics of gamergate. From there it became a gigantic uncontrolled Internet clusterfuck featuring abuse, death threats, SWATing, doxxing and so on. I haven't paid attention for months, my working assumption is that it's dwindled to a group of hardcore obsessives with dozens of alt-accounts.
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Jun 26, 2015 14:43
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Hadaka Apron posted:Could you tell us more about this attempted murder? I haven't heard anything about it yet. I haven't paid attention for months, but I've heard 'attempted murder' used to describe SWATing, the practice of making a false police report to send a SWAT team into someone's house, which has happened a few times. It's an exaggerated term but the act itself is still extremely dangerous. It's why I don't agree with the people who dismiss this as meaningless drama which nobody should care about. It's a big cry about nothing, but it's doing some actual harm. At least, I hope that's what he's referring to.
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Jun 26, 2015 14:57
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Archer666 posted:Besides, the internet is about as separate from real life as you make it. You want to be safe? Don't put anything that could lead back to you on social media. I wonder if one background factor in this is a collision of cultures between people used to pseudonymous communities held separate from real life (and where anything goes), and newer Internet users who treat social media as you're encouraged to, as an adjunct to your real identity. I wonder if things like this and employer scrutiny of social media could lead to a retreat from the idea of the Internet as an extension of real personal life, except in closely controlled ways. If you have to have a Facebook account for your job keep it carefully sanitised and do your internet socialising under a pseudonym or in private channels.
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