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

Posted by EditorDavid on from the government-by-game-makers dept.

"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."

5 of 511 comments (clear)

  1. Race to the bottom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What exactly is she going to do for tech, other than force companies to hire more women and minorities, and pay them all equal regardless of talent?

  2. and in preparation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    She's been mass deleting tweets

    She's done this because she's an absolutely abhorrent person, a hypocrite and a narcissist, and hopes the 99% of the population who've never heard of her remain blissfully unaware of this fact until after she's won.

    So it sounds to me like she's ideally suited to be a politician.

  3. twitter feed by japaneseharold · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  4. Re:All about herself... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    She should be popular with Democrats on Slashdot. Supported Sanders, support net neutrality, actually understand technical issues...

    By the way, this lawyer doesn't seem very neutral or objective:

    The goal is to champion her personal self-serving cause and vindicate her personal self-serving butthurt

    Very professional. Doesn't actually explain what specifically lead him to this conclusion. He then goes off on a rant about Super Mario Run.

    --
    const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
    SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  5. Re:You mean something awful victim? by Raenex · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At the very least, no matter what else, I've felt that Wu and others like Sarkeesian didn't deserve the nasty harassment they got.

    First of, Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu injected themselves into the mix by making fun of GamerGaters. They then used the predictable backlash to claim they were fleeing for their lives... by going to a scheduled convention and tweeting exactly where they would be at the convention. They then gave interview after interview about how they had to flee their home... from their home.

    But that's just one of the ridiculous sagas within GamerGate, and something never reported by the mainstream press, who were all too happy to present GamerGate as a harassment movement to drive women out of gaming.