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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:Or perhaps... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah man, it's just about ethics in game journalism.

  2. Wow, this shit is hilarious. by bistromath007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "People are sick of the politically correct narrative! SJWs won't stop playing the victim card!"

    THIS WAS A PRO-GAMERGATE PANEL YOU NUMBNUTS. MERCEDES CARRERA WAS ONE OF THE PANELISTS.

    I'm not even IN it anymore and I knew that, but people here see "panel about harassment in gaming at SXSW" and they go full fucking cultist. Incidentally, this kind of dumb shit is WHY I'm not in it. The longer any given group exists on the internet, the more likely it will turn into a bunch of howler monkeys that get triggered and assblasted by words they're afraid of. The fact that tumblr SJ trash did it first and loudest doesn't make this any less idiotic.