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Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader shares this update about programmer/game developer Brianna Wu as well as the FBI's recently-released report on their GamerGate investigation:Wu has officially unveiled the web site for her campaign for a seat in the U.S. Congress, and says if elected she'll confront the FBI over their "appalling failure" when investigating members of the controversial GamerGate coalition. "Wu catalogued more than 180 death threats that she said she received because she spoke out against sexism in the game industry and #GamerGate misogyny," according to VentureBeat, which quotes Wu as saying "only a fraction of a fraction of the information we gave them was ever looked into."
The article says the FBI did investigate -- even asking Google to "preserve records" for several email addresses and YouTube accounts, and making a similar request to Microsoft. And the FBI also interviewed one minor who admitted to making at least 40 threatening phone calls, but after turning over that information learned that the state of Massachusetts had declined to prosecute. In the end the FBI's 173-page report ultimately concluded that there were no actionable leads.
Wu's response? "All this report does for me is show how little the FBI cared about the investigation."
The article says the FBI did investigate -- even asking Google to "preserve records" for several email addresses and YouTube accounts, and making a similar request to Microsoft. And the FBI also interviewed one minor who admitted to making at least 40 threatening phone calls, but after turning over that information learned that the state of Massachusetts had declined to prosecute. In the end the FBI's 173-page report ultimately concluded that there were no actionable leads.
Wu's response? "All this report does for me is show how little the FBI cared about the investigation."
No, you unimportant half-melted snowflake, the world does not revolve around you and yours.
Hardly. If it isn't something sexy like bank-robbery or terrorism, they won't bother.
Heck, with Trump in charge, they probably won't care about the banks.
GamerGate, Anti-GamerGate, Anti-Anti-GamerGate...
Whatever this stuff actually means, keep it the hell off of Slashdot
Lady, no one gives a fuck. Do something about hunger, or world peace, or H1Bs, or unemployment, or campaign corruption, or lobbyists, or something that matters.
If you want to pick a fight with the FBI, maybe pick on the DOJ + FBI failure to prosecute Hilary for selling access to our government, taking bribes, or violating national security by dispersing classified information?
That guy got pissy when his bad knockoff of megaman-but-with-more-T&A got bad ratings, even though one should not expect much from a game when one spends part of the budget on a motorcycle. He only joined that whole thing in order to promote his crappy game, giving interviews to people who'd donated (such as Eric Johnson), while pretending there were no connections between them.
What was the FBI gonna find with those threats anyways, when they were made by "Wu", who never changed homes despite being "oh so scared" and claiming he'd moved out? Also that he flipflopped once or twice as to which side of that whole GG debacle he was on, depending on whom he was milking for more funds at the time?
Nobody would be better suited for congress, though we should really adjust the laws to keep people so well suited to its current incarnation *OUT*. And possibly in jail.
Wu? really, what's needed in Congress right now is an ex-General whose ACTUALLY been under fire and under a death threat.
Trump has just removed the military and NSA from the security council, and placed his PR man Bannon in there, together with a Flynn, a known Russia spy. USA's effectively been subjected to a decapitation strike, only instead of bombing the leader of country, he's been replaced with a simple election hack.
And nobody in the mainstream media discusses the arrested US spies in Russia? Where did they get the names from... the day after Trump's men were put into the CIA? Gee I wonder if Trump committed treason to help Putin secure Trump's power base?
Priorities.
Really when the core defence of America is at stake, you have bigger problem to fix than misogyny. You need cold headed military and hard nosed politicians in Congress and Senate. Trump's men will call you a terrorist, threaten your life with actual police state, and you'll go crying, and that's no help to anyone.
What do serious politicians want? Exposure.
He doesn't even have his picture on his campaign website. Nothing about this is serious.
It's gotten harder and harder now that even gay or interracial marriage is allowed and women can go vote. Being the oppressed victim is no longer as simple as being Irish.
They're really digging below the bottom of the barrel with "microaggressions" and "I identify as my gender fluids" crap.
No one cares about Wu or whatever she believes. She's crazy and always has been.
Nothing actionable? What a shock, I tell you! What a shock!
... would be a better choice than Wu ever could have been. Even if she hadn't got fully blown victim narrative as a way of life.
Is this nobody going to look for ways to make 9/11 solely about her?
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In a world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king--and the two-eyed man is a heretic.
Who cares? If the FBI going to follow every "lead" in every harassment case? There aren't that many FBI agents. Get a grip on reality people. The FBI isn't there to fix every issue.
Trump has just removed the military and NSA from the security council, and placed his PR man...
See: Obama/Susan Rice. Did you complain then? No. Can we ignore you as another partisan thug? Yes.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"Are you with me Doctor Wu?
Are you really just a shadow
Of the man that I once knew?
Are you crazy, are you high
Or just an ordinary guy?
Have you done all you can do...?"
-- Steely Dan
Wasn't he caught harassing himself on his own game developer account on steam?
Pronouns-ment....
"HE" who?
Brianna Wu?
If Wu it be...
then she -not- he.
If he not Wu...
then who?
thanks for your attention
to grammatical convention
so please, would you
say just who (Wu?)
"HE"
might be?
If you go to her web page (which does look rather impressive), it has the imposing slogan, "She Fought the Alt-Right and Won." Did she? Presumably she fought against gamergate (is that the alt-right?), did she win? It seems like the FBI is saying that nothing needed to be done.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
... is another goddam non-politician with an axe to grind.
Her personal shit is not on my to do list.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
You go, girl! You show those evil RethugliKKKans how the country should be run! I'm sure you'll be terribly effective at promoting liberal causes!
And if arguments fail you, you can always claim that Paul Ryan sent you death threats!
Actionable lead simply means that they may want to follow up. Considering the number of fake and self inflicted "threats" it becomes silly to take any more seriously. Besides, it's name calling. The FBI has more important things to do than worry about hurt feelings.
Me telling you to pound sand up your ass until you die is not a crime. Action can be a crime, not words. Study basic justice principles and the US Constitution. After that, go pound sand up your ass until you die.
Neither side of this fight is innocent. All parties need to be thrown in jail for wasting FBI time, that includes Brianna and her cry wolf corrupt friends and that adolescent morons that enable them with their childish attacks.
Millenial snowflakes running for congress... I'm getting old, only a few years ago I was not even eligible to run, now it seems I'm too old to even start.
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Lady, no one gives a fuck.
You think? You just watch our donations rolling in dude.
Then we can treat you as a partisan hypocrite.
C'mon, when has SuperKendall ever denied being a partisan hack? Check his posting record, 100% party loyalty, on every issue. Nothing hypocritical about that kind of ideological devotion.
Why the shit is this zero information post getting upvoted as informative?
I wonder where Brianna Wu got the strange notion that an internet troll could run for office and possibly win.
You are welcome on my lawn.
With that level of mistrust in federal government, she must be running as a Republican? No, maybe a Libertarian?
I gave numbers of women who support the current "Feminists", and my numbers are not contrived by current political pandering propaganda polls. I also gave numbers on pro-life women, who you chose to ignore. Those numbers are also not propaganda motivated polls. Continue living in your bubble, fucking idiot.
The election *is* over and time to move on. Hillary won't be running again, so it's a bit pointless to be talking about her, agreed. However:
> I've never seen people who's canddates win,
People who dislike scumbags like Hillary didn't see their candidate win. The US elected a different style of bad. Kasich, for example, dropped out in May, so no, "their" candidates didn't win.
Only amongst very uninformed people who treat national policy as like a ball game, where they root for "their team" does acknowledging Hillary's serious faults equate to rooting for Trump.
Now, all Americans live in a country where Trump is in fact President. Those of us who voted against him, such as myself, have Trump as our president - even though I voted against him twice. Those who favored Trump now have him as President. Hillary's speech about this was right on the money. She said all of us will now, if we're smart, will try to support good policies that he proposes and oppose bad ones. The election is over, Hillary has moved on. Now we press for good policy, the best policies we can from our President. A few years from now we'll have a chance to discuss who the next President should be.
If you love watching unhinged people self destruct, Wu never dissapoints. However I come to Slashdot for tech, updates on Tesla, latest light Linux and NASA news, not a parade of the delusional.
It didn't work the first time around for her, it's only going to be worse to think he's any more important by being a Congresscritter.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Fairly certain Mr. Wu has lied about attending college, as someone running for congress I believe this warrants investigation by the FBI, or a simple google search.
that is all thanks
There were plenty of "actionable leads" in the report, but either the FBI or one of the more local DA's all just refused to prosecute. Several people admitted to doing it (death threats), but "promised not to do it again". I don't know anything about this woman, but the report says that the FBI simply failed.
That is the EXACT opposite of what the report says. They weren't actionable leads. That's why they weren't acted upon.
In fact, this report pretty much exonerates GamerGate and proves exactly what we've been saying all along. There may have been "death threats," but they weren't actually threats of harm, and they were mostly sent by idiots from the chans or other young kids. In fact, the only one they had to do any major investigative work on was the false flag targeting MrRepzion. Others, like the one Antia used to steal from that college, were outright hoaxes.
Oh, and mentioned on page 163 is that Brianna got harassed by about 40 phone calls. The only GamerGate chat Brianna has ever been in is GamerGhazi's mod chat. (Before they banned her for being a batshit insane loser.) In other words, that was a Social Justice Warrior harassing Brianna because Brianna is such an insufferable idiot that even the more asinine of the regressive left can't stand her.
The report quality is adequate to run of the mill federal cases of bomb threats and swatting investigations.
It is nice to see a nod given to SA in the report (though it does not go into much detail) - goons, true to their name, were the ones often pitting reddit/chans vs wu/sarkeesian against each other (by false flagging both camps) just for the sake of spectacular flamewars such internet cockfights tend to generate.
Some Gamergate threads about it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
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The new narrative from the Regressive Left is "Waah, the FBI didn't do enough work to find the harassment we KNOW simply MUST be there."
The reality is the FBI investigated GamerGate and exonerated us. The harassment was either kids being stupid, obvious 4chan memes, or strangely enough True Blood fans getting pissed.
Turns out it actually is about ethics in games journalism. (But really is about a Culture War in Gaming that the Left has soundly lost.)
The silly histrionics and theatrics are actually pretty funny. So, what is the mechanism by which you imagine this is going to happen? Specifically. What did you have in mind as the means by which the (what, military? which branch exactly?) executive branch was somehow going to suddenly overthrow the legislature and the courts, and all of the law enforcement agencies and people in the DoD were suddenly going to drop their personal sensibilities? Really, be specific, instead of delusional.
Which part of the democracy has been dismantled in the last week that has changed in any way, structurally, from Obama's reign? Other than, of course, many of Obama's over-reaching executive orders being reversed or headed to reversal, and a the likelihood of a constructionist being placed on the SCOTUS instead of the pro-executive-power type that Clinton said she'd place.
Is it the temporary immigration order you're worried about? Were you predicting the end of democracy when Obama did it? No? Why not?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Streisand effect. Blown out of proportion by the attention that too many people gave to one little snowflake.
There may have been "death threats," but they weren't actually threats of harm, and they were mostly sent by idiots from the chans or other young kids.
Oh, death threats aren't illegal if they're sent by stupid people? Is that case law somewhere?
Kid, get your head out of your ass. The report clearly explains clearly illegal behavior. People should have been arrested.
I don't respond to AC's.
I guess she'd fit in since she's a liar. For instance, her video of how she'd "left" her home recorded in the same room in her house as a previous video.
If anything, this report proves that's what SHE did ... her victims
Great technique! Take this as an example guys.
Remember always portray the targets of our harassment as the aggressors while we paint ourselves as the victim. Invent improbable stories, such as them creating accounts to harass themselves, accuse them of being "the biggest bullies" on the web (actual examples not needed), and then turn around and accuse them of cultivating a "professional victim-hood." You won't believe how easily the masses lap up our alternative facts. And above all never admit defeat and never feel shame. We shouldn't have any shame arguing, for example, that the Jews framed Hitler for gassing themselves in the so-called "Death Camps." Tomorrow belongs to us.
It's hard to have a peaceful revolution, because there's no non-facist party. Trump is nutty, but just look at the left here - we have a power and attention hungry man, who changed into a woman, so he could complain that women were horribly oppressed and harrassed and things are so hard - as a woman, and things would be better if women were treated like men are. I'll try to lay this out. - He's a man - Chooses to become a woman - Once a woman - Spends all his/her time complaining that women are "oppressed" and harrassed and mistreated and the only reason he/she has problem is because they're a woman - It's been widely showed and rumored that this person created accounts to harrass themselves so they could continue playing the victim This person is nuts. They make Trump look sane and safe in comparison. You know how pissed some people are that Trump banned immigrants from certain countries? In Canada they something similar, they just banned single males: https://www.theguardian.com/wo... I see no difference in philosophy between these 2 kinds of facists.
Question: should the FBI start monitoring Xbox live, and immediately arrest all the prepubescent children making death threats on there?
If not, why not?
LOL. Arrest someone for this?
(actual death threat in report)
Subject: Calling all freaks (feminists!)
My name is [redacted] of GamerGate.
It is my understanding that a lovely young woman named [redacted sentence]
At this moment, we have over 9000 bombs that we will use to blow up the TSC
auditorium when [redacted sentence] You dun goofed by inviting that
stupid feminazi to give a lecture. You're fucking dead, kiddos.
We of GamerGate, or GamerGators, as We prefer to call ourselves, are sick and
tired of you stupid feminists mining everything by saying it's sexist. You all need
a hug, some tea, and maybe a gentle back massage, and what better way to pacify
you than by burning your faces off with high-ordinance explosives?
You can try calling the FBI to come arrest me, but I'm behind 7 proxies and you'll
never be able to backtrace this IP. Can't Iulzback the [redacted]
Oh, and I'm also fapping to all of your pictures right now. You‘re hot. It‘s a shame
y0u’re about to get blown up.
Sincerely,
[redacted]
SJW MODS IN DA HOUSE!
One day of typical work of Roberta Williams was more important for gaming than the whole life of this prick.
To be fair, 99.9999% of the SJWs screeching about the FBI not deciding to send in jack booted thugs to arrest anyone with a Twitter account who has ever criticized Saint Anita or BatWu never even opened the PDF once. The narrative is "the FBI didn't do their jobs" and they're relying on confirmation bias to uphold it.
Way to take a movement that was about journalistic integrity and respect and derail with with "Muh Femunizms!"
Gamergate had fuck-all to do with anyone's sexual or social proclivities.
It was about how members of the mainstream "gaming media" were basically involved in an incestuous "old boy's club", giving props to people who were nice and gave them shit, and ignoring everything else. As well as simply having ZERO respect for their own goddamn demographic, essentially characterizing gamers as, one and all, parental basement dwellers with no social skills and inherently creepy stalker behavior.
Cue understandable outrage. Which some (not all) too way, way too far.
Cue intersectional scumbags smelling blood and social currency in the victim hierarchy...
Basically I find myself sometimes wishing that the entire episode had just not happened. Simply because of the disgusting people (like Sarkeesian and Wu) who managed to create a platform from it.
the likelihood of a constructionist being placed on the SCOTUS
Please, the delusions of the right that they're actually following the Constitution have been exposed since Scalia threw a hissy-fit in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission.
And poor Thomas couldn't understand the difference between that case and Obergefeld v. Hodges. Which fair enough, Kennedy didn't explain, but the guy is on the Supreme Court, one of his clerks should have heard of the full faith and credit clause.
Trump wants a guy like Taney, who will rubberstamp whatever idiocy suits his needs.
Surely you know the difference between a campaign speech, which is designed to rally supporters, vs the federal budget request a sitting President submits to Congress? Like the budget Trump will submit next week.
Yes, while campaigning, candidate Trump made a lot of noise while saying very little. The campaign is over. Now is the time President Trump is submitting a budget to Congress - it's due in a week (though it's sometimes delayed when the White House switches parties). The budget request isn't a bunch of nothing said loudly, it's a very specific document listing actual actions the federal government intends to take, and the costs of each.
After the budget, other actual bills will be debated, bills which will become law. The President will advise Congress (via Twitter) on what he wants to have in those bills (new laws) to get his signature. That's real stuff.
> an executive order can't build a wall or conjure up more border agents.
Surprisingly, perhaps, it *can* start building a wall. The 2006 Secure Fence Act, with support from Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, authorized the 700 miles of border barrier. Only some of that has been built so far - Trump can in fact order the executive to go ahead and build the rest. To build the big wall he depicted in his campaign speeches he'll need Congress to approve more money. What will actually happen will likely be halfway between the pictures he conjured up on the campaign trail and what we already have. Even while campaigning he pointed out that much of the border is rugged country, with natural barriers already existing, so no wall is needed in many areas, he said.
There may have been "death threats," but they weren't actually threats of harm, and they were mostly sent by idiots from the chans or other young kids. Oh, death threats aren't illegal if they're sent by stupid people? Is that case law somewhere? Kid, get your head out of your ass. The report clearly explains clearly illegal behavior. People should have been arrested.
You don't appear to understand what "actionable" means. It literally means "there is nothing to do". It's what LEO say when they determine that something/someone isn't credible.
They've literally said "there is nothing here", and you want someone to be arrested? For what? Death threats that the report (with one exception) literally calls non-actionable?
Or do you want them to go and arrest the 10 year old who was identified as sending the threat?
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
"She fought the alt-right and won" - that is apparently her campaign slogan. That would also be news to the alt-right, that (a) didn't exist when GamerGate happened and (b) barely even knows she exists.
It's like saying: "she beat her fists against a brick wall - left blood flecks everywhere - she must've won".
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
They seem oblivious to just how many law enforcement agencies were involved in the investigation
Here's a list that I got from the report in no particular order
Office of Vice President of Student Services USU
Utah State University Campus Police
Utah State Police
Salt Lake City FBI office
San Francisco PD
San Francisco Federal Grand Jury
San Francisco FBI office
Indiana State Police
Seattle PD
Counterterrorism DG_OP_support (FBI Counterterrorism Unit, I think)
FBI Cybercrime Task Force
Palantir
Seattle FBI office
Massachusetts State Police
Arlington Police
U.S Consulate Sydney, Australia
New South Wales Police, Australia
Office of Legal Attache US Embassy Cannaberra, Australia
Franklin County Prosecutor Office Ohio
Massachusetts Attorney General
US Attorney's Office for Massachusetts
I think that's it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He lost his law license over his stupidity.
Wu doesn't have anything of value to revoke she's so worthless.
The FBI probably looked at what was sent to Jack Thompson and what was sent to Wu, had a good laugh and then went home to play Call of Duty.
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That was what i was saying from the start , those desth threat amounted to idiot chatter and after investigation the fbi probably came to the same conclusion ,, and found it not worth the time to charge. Possibly some ogf those were underage too, if not mentally.
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I'll stand by with popcorn and coke. I mean, I thought Trump was already gold for satire news shows, but this woman is a platinum encrusted jewel.
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I read the PDF, you dumb fuck. Death threats are illegal.
I don't respond to AC's.
RTFA. The FBI tracked down several Gamergate kids in their parents' basements and decided not to arrest them because the dweebs said "they were sorry".
I don't respond to AC's.
RTFA. The FBI tracked down several Gamergate kids in their parents' basements and decided not to arrest them because the dweebs said "they were sorry".
You still don't appear to know what "actionable" means. A child posting a death threat over the internet to an adult is hardly a credible death threat, hence not actionable.
Let me repeat that in case you are slow - the gamergate "threats" were found to be from kids, hence not credible, hence not actionable. What did you expect them to do to kids?
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
Transgender is not a choice anymore than being gay is a choice. Or are you claiming otherwise? If you are then show me how you can "close" to be gay and tell me how it affected you after the event.
You are as silly as she is.
Only when credible... Which the FBI found them to not be, hence not illegal.
I think that sums up the issues right here.
It's not BALANCE to demand kneejerk idiots from "the other side" to run against a kneejerk idiot. It just means we have more kneejerk idiots trying to get more power. Lets hope someone SENSIBLE runs against Wu and just curbstomps her, indicating that people see through her manipulations. THEN we may see fewer kneejerk idiots in power and the grand-daddy of kneejerk precious snowflakes, Oranginer herself, won't happen again.
Seriously, people looked at Trump and thought "I can manipulate the fuck out of a large number of peole and insist that only I can make the world safe for them too", and want to run. Want to complain Wu is running? Blame fucking trump winning giving her ideas.
Wow you can read. Apparently law enforcement and prosecutors are stupid, and you are so smart.
Go fuck yourself snowflake.
Oh, death threats aren't illegal if they're sent by stupid people? Is that case law somewhere?.
Kinda. Check Supreme Court decision in Elonis v. United States
You don't appear to understand what "actionable" means. It literally means "there is nothing to do". It's what LEO say when they determine that something/someone isn't credible.
Umm, no. Actionable means that they can take action. If something is actionable, there is something that can be done. Not saying in this case they should/shouldn't have anything but you're basically using the opposite of what the word means.
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And the FBI handed the (credible) evidence to the state of Massachusetts, which in turn decided not to prosecute one stupid child, and said child hopefully learned an important lesson after shitting himself.
If that's not enough for you, keep in mind that faking death threats and then reporting them to the police is also a criminal act, and this one was perpetrated by an adult knowing full well the gravity of said actions.
Credible death threats are illegal. A toddler telling someone else in kindergarten that they're going to kill them is a mean child who probably needs a teacher to explain a few things to them, but not actually a felon. If I tell you that I'm going to launch a nuclear ICBM at every city in the western hemisphere, just to make sure that I get you, then it's a comment in poor taste, but there's a pretty slim chance that I have access to that many nukes, so it's not a credible threat. If I post a photo of you walking to work and a caption saying that it's the last day that you'll make it alive, then I'd expect a visit from law enforcement agents with no sense of humour at all and to spend a lot of time trying to convince them and possibly a judge that I didn't really mean it.
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We should have prosecutors go after every person they can with the fullest force of the law! Child throws rocks at someone? Assault and battery! 7 years!
Please note: I wrote this without calling you a dumb fuck. It's possible to make a point without being a child.
Go to hell, Brianna Wu. You never answered our questions about why you're shy about being assigned the male gender at birth. Afraid that might cost you some SJW cred?
Man up already, Brianna. Oh, wait.
There may have been "death threats," but they weren't actually threats of harm, and they were mostly sent by idiots from the chans or other young kids.
Oh, death threats aren't illegal if they're sent by stupid people? Is that case law somewhere?.
Your so fucked up I hope you die. I just sent a bomb to your house disguised as a poodle. Not a stuffed toy animal, a real poodle. So, just keep that in mind the next time someone walks by your house "walking their dog". Because, IT'S A BOMB! Ha Ha Ha.
So, it that a real "death threat"? Or just the usual online crap we all have to read all the fucking time from internet trolls?
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
So fucking mad.
said no game developer, ever.
an enemy, eventually they can find it basically anywhere.
if i had to think on a bunch on people that was more focused on their own thing, and not bothering anyone else, that would be gamers, i mean, real gamers, the ones that actually are gaming, not doing something else like getting their hair colour green and stuff like that, just gaming because they love it. And here comes a group that starts picking on them and their hobby when they were minding their own effing business
and as a result everybody starts to get pissed, and now thanks to wu and people like that you have president trump, congratulations on your massive epic fail
I read the PDF, you dumb fuck. Death threats are illegal.
Yes, they are. Non-credible threats, however, have about as much of a chance of being prosecuted and achieving jail time for the person making the non-credible threat as Wu has of winning that seat in 2018.
If I threaten you by telling you some outrageous bullshit, like "I'll rip your head off like Sub-Zero!" the FBI is going to look at that and know it isn't actionable. Now, if I threaten with something much more credible, like having taken pictures of you going in and out of your house, and saying "watch your back, you never know when I'll attack", then the FBI (or local law enforcement) will see that as a much more credible threat, especially since it appears I'm already stalking you, and know where you live.
Those differences are what separate SJW logic from real logic. SJW logic dictates that even the most outrageous thing said to them ("I'll shove a nuclear bomb up your ass and detonate it!") is a real and credible threat to their special snowflake lives; and that they now deserve money from strangers because they're a victim. Real logic says: yeah, that threat is so toooooootally real. Like, fer sure, dude. *laughs and walks away knowing the threat is a fake*.
Wu's response? "All this report does for me is show how little the FBI and most of the civilized world cared about me and the investigation".
I can't wait until we win the war on microaggressions so we can move on to those pesky nanoaggressions.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Yes, while campaigning, candidate Trump made a lot of noise while saying very little.
It appears that way because the media only focused on some manufactured outrage. He could speak for two hours about plans for immigration or trade reform and it doesn't matter because the media is going to spend the entire news cycle screaming about whether or not he made fun of a disabled reporter. Trump's actual plans are clearly written on his website, that's what his voters read and voted for, and he is carrying out those plans at a rapid pace. At this rate he'll have his entire platform wrapped up in a few weeks. I wonder what he'll do for the rest of his presidency?
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
GamerGate holds a special place in my heart.
It is the only issue where I fervently hope that both sides lose.
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According to the latest ruleset, this post should be modded as Vorpal Flamebait +5.
Yup. Even today those games have a warm place in my heart. Certainly I hold RW in higher regard than the "Two Guys from Andromeda", which - despite half a million bucks and a "delivery date" of Feb 2013 - still have yet to produce anything more than some tiny side-games.
If you look at some of the history of her games, she's been producing since 1980 (despite a "retirement" in 99), and when other companies were still dropping a few hundred k to produce she managed to pull through with big-budget Phantasmagoria (4.5x the original budget but they kept plugging, ultimately making more than double their spend back in profit and producing a damn cool game for the time).
Here's one of the threats in the report, as posted elsewhere in this thread. Can you tell where it loses all credibility?
Over 9000 bombs. GOLLY GEE, that's not an obvious meme or anything. Clearly, we need to call in the national guard immediately. I hear they might be calling in an ex navy seal with over 300 confirmed kills to go after Batwu next. The fiends!
The fact of the matter is these are obvious memes without any credibility. That makes them non-actionable shitposting, at least in the realm of law enforcement. In addition, it matches EXACTLY what GamerGate has been saying all along -- that these were trolls from baphomet, somethingawful, GNAA, kiwi farms, and other chan groups that were jumping in because people like BatWu are absolutely unhinged idiots that react hilariously to trolling.
Oh, death threats aren't illegal if they're sent by stupid people? Is that case law somewhere?
Essentially, yes. In the United States a death threat is only illegal if it's a "true threat." The definition of "true threat" varies by jurisdiction, but essentially there must be reason to believe the person making the threat has the ability and intent to carry it out. Otherwise it's really awful speech but protected under the first amendment. There is no reason to believe an anonymous threat over the internet about fucking video games is a true threat. If .00001% of the daily death threats that are spewed by 12 year olds on Xbox Live were carried out the streets would be ankle deep in blood.
Is it a shitty thing to do to send someone death threats over the internet? Absolutely. But only a complete moron or a politically motivated shitbag looking for sympathy points from complete morons would take them seriously. Wu doesn't seem like a complete moron, so I'm guessing it's the latter.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
But what about the (Clinton) emails!?!?!?!
The FBI is a laughingstock, persecuting and trying to dig up non-existent dirt on HRC for a non-crime, while covering up an active investigation into Russian influence in our election on the other, and finally throwing the election for Trump in the 11th hour. Misogyny runs deep in the FBI, perhaps even deeper than in our society at large, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the last election.
That they would willfully fail to investigate or prosecute other cases of misogyny such as gamergate should come as absolutely no surprise from Comey's FBI.
Even after reading the Wikipedia page several times over the years, articles and asking people in the know...I still don't know what GamerGate is actually about.
I've had plenty of Internet Tough Guys pull that shit on me too, including a couple who mentioned where I was living or working at the time, and my response has always been "bring it on". None of them has ever shown up.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
HIs opponents may be misogynists, but how anyone feels about women in general is irrelevant here, because Wu is NOT A WOMAN. He is a delusional male (can't say "man", doesn't really apply), who has decided to pretend that he's a woman.
This isn't flame bait - no I'm not new here - I'm just curious what the rest of her campaign is about. If memory serves the seat is held by a relatively liberal elected already. And in the grand tradition of comment threads I'm doing none of my own research and hoping someone will do it for me.
Get the politics out of my dev. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://encyclopediadramatica....
he simply left off the "not" prior to actionable. if you read the whole thread his point makes sense
Like Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. That is all.
Whats best is that one of the few threats directed at Wu came from their allies at somethingawful.com.
What is up with that? Someone needs to pay! The children need to be incarcerated. Lock them up in a youth correctional facility. Those boys will learn the error of their ways pretty quickly, when paired with an older cell-mate. (It's a sad commentary about our society that male prison rape is considered 'justice').
While they're at it, why not arrest the parents? Those parents need to be taught a lesson! Toss them in jail for a year or two! If they don't have time to watch their children, they should not have any, or be fully responsible of the consequences of their actions until they are no longer minors. And yes, that includes capital punishment. If they don't have the time to teach their special snowflakes that melting someone else's snowflake is bad, I've no sympathy for them.
And take the all the computers, phones, and spare cash away from the family as 'evidence' to be dumped into a locker. In five years, they can get them back if they fill out the appropriate paperwork in time. No paperwork, no stuff. Assuming they've filled out the paperwork correctly, then they'll have a 30 day window to pick up the stuff. If they fail to do any step right, the government will auction it off. Remember, possession is 9/10 ownership.
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Clearly insane. Brianna Wu "Hot"?
on top that, many say her cunt smells bad too
Kids get arrested every day. There are police officers in most public schools in the US today.
I don't respond to AC's.
Lol. No.
And you probably think that is a good thing. Sad!
I love how all of the people saying Wu is a female are AC.
Well, congrats on being out of the 99.9999%. Achievement Unlocked?
Perhaps advocate their own brand of justice: doggy style justice, if you will.
Man blir trött av att gå och göra ingenting.
Death Threats are Death threats, this is more or less an admission of guilt.
You know when Ted Nugent made a death threat against Obama? The cops investigated him
you know when Madonna made a death threat against trump?
the cops investigated him.
Some fucking kid on 4chan needs to be taught a fucking lesson.
captcha: swatted
Some have outright called him Flynt and they're ACs as well, though.
Transgender is not a choice anymore than being gay is a choice. Or are you claiming otherwise?
If GP doesn't, I will. It IS a choice. Until 50 years ago, it was not an option and people survived just fine.
Let me get this straight (no pun intended).
You believe "transgender" is a choice. Is that correct?
You believe "gay" is a choice. Is that also correct?
What is this "50 years ago" stuff? You are talking about characteristics that the human race has had since before it was human. That's reality. So what are you actually saying? What claim are you actually making?
I do not know why I am giving you the courtesy of a reply when I will not know if any response actually comes from you. Do not think this is dialog. Unless you use an identifier it is not dialog.