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."

Comments

Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[ravenshrike]

No, you unimportant half-melted snowflake, the world does not revolve around you and yours.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why not? That's what the democrats do. You don't agree with them? You must be a racist, xenophobic, sexist piece of shit.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you just proved his point. You dont agree with him, so you automatically label him as a bigoted asshole.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[ravenshrike]

Death threats on the internet are about as credible as Baghdad Bob was during the invasion of Iraq. The FBI looked into them, and determined their credibility was at said level, reported the one person who repeatedly harassed her and presumably handed over their evidence of such to the appropriate authorities, and then dropped the issue because they did their jobs. But for our special snowflake this isn't good enough. She needs that extra special law enforcement appeasement. It's certainly not the FBI's problem that Massachusetts declined to prosecute.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[HornWumpus]

When someone calls you 'bigot' for criticizing a philosophy you know they are _full of shit_.

Philosophies held are exactly the kind of thing you can judge a person or group on. Skip the name calling and defend it or shut up.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[ArmoredDragon]

And "bigotry" isn't limited to racism.

Bigotry has nothing to do with racism. Bigotry is intolerance of an opinion. In fact, calling people racist because you don't like their opinions is bigotry.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[goose-incarnated]

I didn't call anyone a racist, and trying to redefine a word to shortcut actually have to deal with what someone said is, apart from anything else, intellectually lazy

You've called lots of people racist in the past, including me, a black man. Assigning unrelated traits into a single collection like you did may not be you calling someone racist, but you're certainly implying it.

At least have the courage to directly call someone out instead of loosely chaining booleans together with a vague conditional.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[91degrees]

If the criticism is something along the lines of "While the 5 pillars of Islam are laudible, I feel that they do not adequately compensate for the rather outdated attitudes towards gender equality still held by a disproportionate number of Muslims" I'll largely agree with this. If it's "that woman with a burka might be working for the enemy because all Muslims may want to destroy our way of life" then I'll probably consider you a bigot.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[Opportunist]

This.

I actually had to look it up. And I would indeed consider myself an avid gamer. Actually, currently it's likely I spend more time playing games than working (if that's possible). And I haven't heard about it until recently, and I looked it up ... and I don't get it. No, honestly, I don't get it. What the fuck is this about? Someone left someone and now someone wrote an article about a game but didn't report about the game but let his (or her, I don't care) hurt feelings get in the way.

That's it? For real? That's what people get worked up about?

Don't get me wrong, of course, losing someone and being hurt matters to the person who it happens to, but why the FUCK should I give half a shit about it? "But journalism and integrity..." BULLSHIT! Does anyone still read "journalist" articles about games? Half of them are paid ads anyway, the other half is worded in a way that reeks worse of copy/paste than the average answer from a tech supporter. If you care for other people's opinions on games, read reviews from other players on Steam.

Aside of that, PLEASE educate me why this is even a thing? If anything, it reminds me that adding "-gate" to any topic only means "we want to blow this out of proportion or else nobody gives a shit because it's not worth giving one".

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[goose-incarnated]

That's the point. They failed to gather the evidence themselves, which would have made it most robust.

TBH, those IRC logs would not have changed much. Assume that they did have those logs, it still wouldn't turn Wu's lies about being chased from her home (and further lies about reporting it) into truths.

And once again, those logs may have not been credible anyway, hence they were ignored. You are making the assumption that those logs were credible.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[elrous0]

Complaining about these words is just the new "politically correct". An effort to rework the language into a kind of newspeak where criticism of your views is impossible because the words needed to describe them are banned.

A truly hilarious criticism coming from an SJW, considering the fact that SJW's are the most serious threat to free speech in the country right now. I dare say you forfeited any right to cite Orwell the second you started trying to ban conservatives from speaking at college campuses across the country, campaigning to have people fired from their jobs for having opinions that didn't jibe with yours, and passing laws that jail people who refuse to use made-up pronouns. Sorry, no moral high ground there for you, snowflake.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[someone1234]

The moment you speak to his boss with the intent of causing him harm, is the moment your free opinion transforms to a tool of destructing the livelihood of another human. Same as hate speech inciting someone else to take action against you. Same as doccing people. These actions are beyond free speech. They are not for declaring an opinion, they goal is to cause harm to another human.

Re: Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[Attila Dimedici]

You need to work on reading comprehension. The OP is claiming that she is running for Congress so that, if she wins, she can use the powers of that office to punish those who have offended her, whether or not their offense is a violation of the law.

NOTE: I do not have an opinion on whether the OP is right or not, but Brianna Wu's tactics during the Gamergate situation resembled those of people in other situations who created fake attacks on themselves...that does not mean they are not true, just that she was either behind those tactics, or she provoked them in order to garner publicity for herself rather than seeking to actually address the problem she claimed to be protesting.

Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11.

[inhuman_4]

I'm not an SJW

Good god man you must be joking. You're not just any SJW, you are the SJW. You're easily the most famous SJW on slashdot. I knew even before clinking on the story that half of the comments would be you flame warring with someone. Even on stories that aren't political you're waging a culture war, your old sig was something like "SJW: Someone I disagree with and by the way I'm an idiot" and now your new sig is anti-GamerGate. I don't know if maybe you don't know what a SJW is, or you do and just don't like the label. But you fit the mold to a T. If you honestly don't think you're a SJW I suggest you go back are re-read some of your own comments because the pattern of aggressive social justice advocacy is plain for all to see.

An Inanimate Carbon Rod 2018!

[Noishkel]

... 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.

Re:No one gives a fuck

[Ol Olsoc]

Hillary lost, get over it. You have to own your guy's fuck-ups, now.

This is the sorest bunch of winners ever. I've never seen people who's canddates win, and they're angrier than before the election.

Meanwhile...

[Z80a]

One day of typical work of Roberta Williams was more important for gaming than the whole life of this prick.

Re:Meanwhile...

[Mashiki]

Funny thing on that. You know that the usual social justice clique likes to scrub her out of history because she likes to make things that cater to her audience. Much like how they like to scrub Mari Shimazaki who was the artist and character designer for so many AAA games, and how she not only likes "sexy female characters" but has no problems designing male ones to pander or give fan service. Or they like to complain about manga's which have a very high level of female storyboard writers or lead-artists/illustrators.