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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."
Wu "says her extensive technical knowledge and experience fighting the alt-right and harassment and will be advantageous for a Congressional representative."
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?
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.
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.
I've yet to work out what Gamergate actually is. As far as I can tell it started out with an incident involving a games reviewer giving a glowing review to a game that happened to be written by his partner, even though by all other accounts the game was terrible, and from there escalated into a flamewar of epic proportions that engulfed a hundred other subjects into one big ball of confusing anger involving a lot of death threats, rape accusations, accusations of fabricated death threats and false rape accusations, ridiculously easily-offended people, people who set out to offend them for amusement, and generally all the things we love to hate about online political culture.
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For some reason the media that badly covered Gamergate chose not to cover the FBI releasing its files about Gamergate.
I'd like to know when "alt-right" became synonymous with GamerGate.
Oh, I get it. "GamerGate" is dead news, and outside of the gaming community and tech journalists, no one knows what the hell it is. "Alt-right" is a hot topic, though. Nevermind that the two have jack-all to do with each other.
She kinda sounds like a politician already.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
My apologies, you are correct. The allegation about a positive review was note made in the blog post by her ex. It was fabricated later by people supporting him as a way to justify the harassment.
And to be completely clear, once again, the review does not exist. The allegation is entirely false.
It wasn't a review. It was coverage. The head editor of Kotaku strawmanned the argument into "review" in order to make it more specific and false, which allowed them to deny it. Everyone knows this, except certain trolls that support Gawker's disgusting behavior intentionally muddy the waters to give themselves some cover.
Nathan Greyson absolutely COVERED Quinn's scams and "projects" without announcing he was friends and later dating her. That should have got him fired. Kotaku instead doubled down, and we got GamerGate.
Then we had the Gamers Are Dead scandal and the discovery of GameJournoPros, a secret mailing list where people like Greyson and the Kotaku editor were discussing how to break NDAs, fix review scores, and blacklist topics and people, which fanned the flames of GamerGate and ensured it wouldn't go away.
And hey, while we're speaking of harassment, wanna talk about how Quinn sent a flood of sexist and racist hate mail to Candance Owens to an email address that only Quinn knew, claiming it was by "gamers?"
Or the huge leaks of her "advocacy organization," Crash Override Network -- aka, "CON," proving that they were doxing, harassing, gaslighting, and generally being monsters to everyone who pissed Quinn off that week?
Or how Quinn openly bragged about being part of the Helldump board of SomethingAwful that was dedicated to doxing and harassing people into suicide?
No? Yeah, didn't think so. Zoe Quinn is a serial abuser, rapist, and sociopath. If there's only one more thing GamerGate could succeed at doing, it would be ensuring that nutjob never hurts another person.
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.