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SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment (sxsw.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the let's-pretend-there-isn't-problem dept.

New submitter rMortyH writes: Two panels on online harassment in gaming scheduled for the upcoming South by Southwest festival have been cancelled due to online harassment and threats. According to a statement from SXSW Director Hugh Forrest, "... in the seven days since announcing these two sessions, SXSW has received numerous threats of on-site violence related to this programming. ... If people can not agree, disagree and embrace new ways of thinking in a safe and secure place that is free of online and offline harassment, then this marketplace of ideas is inevitably compromised."

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  1. Re:SJW, please go dai! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And your response is to tell them to die. You are 12 at the best, maybe not physically except for your baby dick, but certainly mentally. Grow up you childish little cunt. You lost all credibility as an adult when your response was to wish death on people you don't disagree with.

  2. Re:Or perhaps... by epyT-R · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No it wasn't. GG was also about calling out marxist narratives for what they are. Propaganda is not journalism.

  3. Re:Or perhaps... by Required+Snark · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I hope somebody calls a SWAT team on your mother. Then you might get a fucking clue.

    That's exactly what happened to one of the women involved in Gamergate. If you can't figure out how evil and dangerous this can get, then you are as guilty as the shitheads who actually do the dirty work. You are on their team and they know it. You are no different from someone who offers apologies for suicide bombings. It's just a difference in degree, not a difference in kind, asshole.

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  4. Re:Sadly you don't even need to disagree by Required+Snark · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You dumbshit motherfucker. I hope someone rapes you.

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  5. Re:There was not one panel for each side by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Randi Harper's panel was about technology design to combat internet harassment. GamerGate was not mentioned.

    Enough GamerGaters are pro-harassment (with excuses as to why it's justified) to where you really can't argue that GamerGaters aren't a factor when harassment occurs.

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  6. Re:+1 funny by publiclurker · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    what a spoiled little child you are. How about you call your mommie and complain to her.

  7. Re:+1 funny by serviscope_minor · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Haven't you heard? Expressing an opinion contrary to the narrative is a micro-aggression that compromises the safe space. As such, it cannot be tolerated.

    I wish I were being sarcastic, but I'm not. :(

    Then what are you being? Yet another SJW who makes wild claims with absolutely nothing to back them up?

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