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FBI Confirms Open Investigation Into Gamergate
v3rgEz writes In a terse form letter responding to a FOIA request, the FBI has confirmed it has an open investigation into Gamergate, the loose but controversial coalition of gamers calling for ethics in gaming journalism — even as some members have harassed and sent death threats to female gaming developers and critics.
GamerGate is about some assholes using "ethics" as a shield while shouting their misanthropic hatred at some other assholes who dare to have opinions that differ from their own. #ThinkOfTheManChildren
Perhaps the FBI will enjoy that laughably bad multiple-choice, text-game on Steam.
If they don't, someone should advise the FBI to be silent. After all, criticizing hilariously shitty products on Steam is now apparently a form of sexual harassment. And pointing out the overwhelmingly obvious in a blog post, may be construed as "rape" here in bizarro world.
Dear FBI, please tread carefully. If you write up a critical report the feminazis will cry verbal assault.
People do care when a bunch of people threaten other people with bodily harm.
Or said people threaten themselves for publicity. Plenty of reason to think that things aren't what they seem when AS tells everybody who cares to listen about all the threats she gets but categorically refuses to talk to the police. Even when police contacted her because some fan of hers had gone to the police. And then there's the infamous twitter screenshot with her sock puppet harrassing herself and the "massacre threat" seems quite fishy too:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sd28rl
I do not give two shits about ethics in journalism, it's a pointless battle. But what I do care about is people denying the fucking obvious because it conflicts with their personal politics. Game journalism is corrupt as shit and used SJW bullshit to defend themselves - whether you think that's justified, whether you think the gamergate response of harassment and threats is the bigger story, fine I have no opinion. But denying the objective fucking truth is horseshit, and I can't believe /. stands for it.
GGers lack of self-reflection is astounding, as always. You've built a nice little conspiracy on factoids you were carefully fed by trolls and cling to it blindly. Did you care to read "logs proving collusion" from that renowned beacon of journalist ethics, Milo? Did you even care to check the fucking elementary fact of "publishing on the same day"?
Like hell you did. First Breitbart's opportunist takes a chance to shoot at "damn librul feminists bullying poor gamers" (even though he smeared those gamers in shit literally two weeks before he suddenly went all pro-Gamergate) and publishes pretty innocent e-mails while stomping his feet and screaming how unprofessional it is, and alluding to some *real* dirt which he just totally forgot to screenshot and post. GGers lap it up and "OMG COLLUSION WAS PROVEN" meme is born, even though most of the people interesting to GG weren't even on that list.
You don't even care to look at those "damning" articles, which were spread over a week right after the harassment peak, with Sarkeesian fleeing home, and opt instead for parroting "OMG SO MANY ARTICLES ON THE SAME EXACT DAY" line.
But nope, it's all the other people who deny the fucking obvious, right.
According to Wikipedia*, #notyourshield was largely a sockpuppet sham.
* make of that what you will, maybe they are part of the anti-#gamergate liberal conspiracy (it always amuses me how "liberal" is somehow seen as an insult in the US)
They threatened to shoot up a school if one of their targets was allowed to speak at a conference. That's most likely the only reason the FBI gives a shit.
Really? Do you have proof of this? Right, you don't. Strange that your comment was modded informative. Anyone else remember when proof was required when someone was spouting bullshit. I guess "listen and believe" is a real thing for some people.
Om, nomnomnom...
If you're getting up in a tizzy about some dumb comment made by some angsty teenager on some forum, you should probably just sign off the internet now. Didnt Jon Gabriel have a pretty concise theory explaining this behavior somewhere?