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Vancouver Area Teen Sentenced To 16 Months For Swatting
An anonymous reader writes: A 17-year-old from the Vancouver area in Canada has been sentenced to 16 months in youth custody and 8 months under supervision in the community after pleading guilty to 23 charges including criminal harassment, public mischief, extortion and uttering threats. The teenager was responsible for a number of swatting calls across the United States and Canada — mostly of female gamers. The judge told him, "It appears that when real life became too hard you retreated into the online world and became increasingly socially isolated. While you may think you enjoyed greater success in the online world, that success was an illusion. You were left with severely limited social skills and a significant educational deficit."
Just because your mother allowed you to live in the basement until you were 50, you still need to get out into the big blue room with the bright light and interact with normal people who don't know about Slashdot.
And tens of millions of games don't agree with the gamergate idiots who support slut shaming, swatting, doxing and so on. I'm a gamer as well, have been since the days of Kings Quest on my PC jr and lode runner on my Apple IIe. I do not and will not support the antics of online bullies, thye give us all a bad name, thus I will stand up and call them out each and every time.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Here come the SJWs again, oppressing male gamers! Feminazis get offended by anything.
So a bunch of heavily armed people knocked down all the doors in your house, shot your dog, and handcuffed you and your family; quit being such a PC whiner.
I'm a gamer. I'm not a gamergater. One plays games. The other spends all of its time attacking women, feminists, and men who support them. Big difference.
Gamergaters - stop pretending you speak for those who play games. You don't.