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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."
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.
Well yes, if you want to believe that the white man is superior, that African Americans, Mexicans and Muslims are subhumans, that women should suck it up when men verbally harass them, or, you know, "grab them by the pussy", that does make you a bigot and a misogynist.
Wait......what? We're you making a statement for effect, or just showing how prejudiced you are?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
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
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
No, he is making a statement of fact. If you behave in a misogynist way, then your behaviour can accurately be described as misogynist. There are no "alternate facts" here, these are simply the words used to describe certain ideas.
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.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
> made-up pronouns
All pronouns are made up. All WORDS are made up.
Seriously... where the fuck did you think they came from ?
Even if you're a creationist... you didn't actually think we're still speaking with the words God used when talking to Adam did you ? Not to mention - if that had been real, Adam would like have spoken Mesopotamian - not English. English wouldn't be made up for another 9 thousand years or so.
Words are made up all the time - and all words are made up. One of the most basic purposes of making up words is to accurately describe things that were not previously described accurately. Which is exactly what the thing you're so freaked out about happens to consist off. As it happens that failure to use the right word (and how new it is has NOTHING to do with how right it is) is proven to actually KILL people - so punishing those who malignantly refuse to do so after they learn this is an act of saving lives.
Yep... we're the greatest threat to freedom of speech (not Trump arresting journalists)... because we told you, you can't shout "fire" in a crowded theaterhouse and today's rightwingers are such namby-pamby little snowflakes that they believe they should be able to live in a little safe space where nothing you say ever has consequences.
Hint: getting people fired for saying asshole things is NOT an infringement on free speech, it's an ACT AND CELEBRATION of free speech. You have the right to say fucked up shit -and I have the right to tell your boss that if he doesn't fire your ass for it I will not shop at his business. Consequences of speech are ALSO free speech. Telling us we can't DO that- now THAT is the biggest threat to free speech. It's trying to make a world where only YOU lot get to have free speech because you precious little alt-right snowflakes can't handle criticism.
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If you think SJWs are the most serious threat to free speech in the USA, you haven't been awake the last week. trump, bannon, and conway have been running an intimidation campaign trying to get the press to just turn into Pravda and echo the party line. It's far scarier and more dangerous than someone complaining on slashdot. Especially since trump is going to appoint at least one, probably two Supreme Court justices.
So let me get this straight. X uses words to do harm and that's okay, but if I arrange a boycott of his employer - then THAT harm is NOT okay ?
Only a rightwinger can write a flagrantly hypocritical statement like you just did and not even fucking blush.
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