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SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment (sxsw.com)
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."
don't be a cunt
There is no doubt in anybody's mind that these allegations were made up by the SXSW themselves in order to gain publicity.
Why it this shit given exposure. Oh, right, SWJ!!!!
AFAIAC, SJW has no place in the tech sphere
They could be that much more productive for their own female folks in the islamic world who are suffering from constant suppressions by their men, than coming to harass the folks in the tech scene
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
It's very easy to post an anonymous threat on a website. It's very easy for dishonest journalists to represent those threats as representative of the larger community, even if it was one or two people who got told to fuck off by the rest of the thread or banned by the mods.
Heck, the Escapist apologized to Wizardchan for doing the same shit in September of 2014. Around the same time we get the same allegations being slung at 4chan and 8chan, the same "victim", and the same scanty evidence.
Muslim teenagers. Being Arab had nothing to do with it.