GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress (cnn.com)

"If you look at what our Congress is doing for tech, it's failing. It's putting all of us in danger," game developer Brianna Wu told CNN, adding "It's so imperative that people of my generation, native to technology, that we step up and make our voices known." An anonymous reader quotes CNN's report: Wu says she is running for Congress in 2018. The co-founder and head of development at games firm Giant Spacekat hasn't announced which district she wants to represent in the U.S. House of Representatives to prevent alerting her potential opponent while she prepares. Wu, a Massachusetts Democrat, told CNNMoney she's building up a team of advisers and figuring out campaign logistics before announcing her candidacy next month... She said the election of President-elect Donald Trump spurred her to consider entering politics...
Wu "says her extensive technical knowledge and experience fighting the alt-right and harassment and will be advantageous for a Congressional representative."

Comments

Re:Grievance politics

[Anonymous Coward]

Will this person have anything to offer anyone other than complaining about whatever the latest grievance obsession is?

Maybe Frexit or mass Muslim deportation. I am being serious.

Brianna Wu, and more importantly the media's promotion of her, basically move Gamergate past the point of no return and into the rolling snowball of mass online revolution against the system that became Brexit, Trump, and a general rejection of post-war media driven consensus. Never in my life could I have imagined that a scandal over video games and a paranoid transsexual could have spawned a global social-media uprising, but here we are in 2016. Donald Trump is president, Britan is leaving the EU, which is collapsing, Russia is hacking everything electronic and political, the economy is about to burst like a fuzzy overripe grapefruit, and the editors on every site have lost all control of their narratives and their comment sections and the whole political system has no idea what to do about it.

I honestly wish Ms Wu every success, because nothing would please me more than congressmen being faced the physical manifestation of the insane and dysfunctional way they have run our country into the ground. Really, it couldn't have happened to nicer people.

Re:twitter feed

[Golgafrinchan]

I noticed her Twitter feed is limited only to her latest non-violent and nice posts. I wonder why that is? During the gamergate fiasco, she posted some of the most abhorrent, violent, and childish things I've ever seen. Especially against men. I would hope her political opponents will bring this up and destroy her. She is not mentally fit or mature enough to run a small gaming company, let alone a district.

If only posting abhorrent and childish things on Twitter were enough to disqualify one from seeking political office...

Re: Race to the bottom

[PopeRatzo]

No, he wants to preserve the whole concept of girlfriend.

I guess for some of you, "concept" is the best you can hope for.

Re:You mean something awful victim?

[AmiMoJo]

I see your point, but it's literally the same people. They co-opted the useful idiots of GamerGate for their own anti-feminist agendas.