Amor Vincit
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"Feminism is in the majority"
[Citation Needed]
"GamerGate condemns death threats."
Death threats are only part of the problem. The movement is doing more harassment in general than any actual insight into journalistic integrity.
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GamerGate is largely playing out on Twitter, and if the movement is about ethics in games journalism, logic says the majority of tweets on the #GamerGate hashtag should be directed at games journalists and their employers and not at game developers...
So, is GamerGate really about ethics in journalism? Newsweek asked BrandWatch, a social media analytics company, to dig through the more than 2 million tweets about GamerGate since September 1 discover how often Twitter users tweeted at or about the major players in the debate, and whether those tweets were positive, negative or neutral. BrandWatch sampled 25 percent of tweets—what it considers a reflective amount of data—on the hashtag #GamerGate from Sept. 1 to Oct. 23....
Twitter users have tweeted at Quinn using the #GamerGate hashtag 10,400 times since September 1. Grayson has received 732 tweets with the same hashtag during the same period. If GamerGate is about ethics among journalists, why is the female developer receiving 14 times as many outraged tweets as the male journalist?...
The discrepancies there seem to suggest GamerGaters cares less about ethics and more about harassing women.
GamerGaters do tweet a lot at the official Kotaku account—more than any individual journalist or editor. That account has been pummeled with 23,500 tweets since September 1. But that number pales in comparison to the tweets received by Brianna Wu, another female game developer who has spoken out against GamerGate, and Anita Sarkeesian, who has been a vocal critic of sexism in gaming. Sarkeesian has been bombarded with 35,188 tweets since September 1, while Wu has gotten 38,952 in the same time period. Combined, these two women have gotten more tweets on the #GamerGate hashtag than all the games journalists Newsweek looked at combined. And, again, neither of them has committed any supposed “ethics” violations. They’re just women who disagree with #GamerGate.
So, is GamerGate really about ethics in journalism? Newsweek asked BrandWatch, a social media analytics company, to dig through the more than 2 million tweets about GamerGate since September 1 discover how often Twitter users tweeted at or about the major players in the debate, and whether those tweets were positive, negative or neutral. BrandWatch sampled 25 percent of tweets—what it considers a reflective amount of data—on the hashtag #GamerGate from Sept. 1 to Oct. 23....
Twitter users have tweeted at Quinn using the #GamerGate hashtag 10,400 times since September 1. Grayson has received 732 tweets with the same hashtag during the same period. If GamerGate is about ethics among journalists, why is the female developer receiving 14 times as many outraged tweets as the male journalist?...
The discrepancies there seem to suggest GamerGaters cares less about ethics and more about harassing women.
GamerGaters do tweet a lot at the official Kotaku account—more than any individual journalist or editor. That account has been pummeled with 23,500 tweets since September 1. But that number pales in comparison to the tweets received by Brianna Wu, another female game developer who has spoken out against GamerGate, and Anita Sarkeesian, who has been a vocal critic of sexism in gaming. Sarkeesian has been bombarded with 35,188 tweets since September 1, while Wu has gotten 38,952 in the same time period. Combined, these two women have gotten more tweets on the #GamerGate hashtag than all the games journalists Newsweek looked at combined. And, again, neither of them has committed any supposed “ethics” violations. They’re just women who disagree with #GamerGate.
Also, it's way too far-fetched to believe that Quinn, Sarkeesian and Wu made threats against themselves so much that they had to move away from their own homes.
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...all three claim threats related to GamerGate have driven them from their homes—a claim which is reinforced by the fact that the FBI has reached out to the development community to discuss solutions for online harassment.
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Still using feminist biased news sources huh? Besides, you would find it far-fetched despite the fact that Zoe Quinn in particular has done a lot of similar s**t in order to slander GamerGate. You're already biased yourself so I wouldn't expect you to do this, but if you spent more time listening to the GamerGate side, you'll see that neither of the 3 are perfect "victims" like you want to believe.
"Still using feminist biased news sources, huh?"
Still claiming that every news source that does not support your point is "feminist biased", huh?
You also failed to provide citation where indicated.
"Zoe Quinn in particular has done a lot of similar s**t in order to slander GamerGate."
Wow, nice deflection. That does not negate the fact that the figures show that GamerGate is more about harassment than anything else. Also, I've never heard about Quinn threatening someone to the point where they didn't feel safe in their own home. Unless you have citation for that.
"You're already biased yourself."
Because you definitely aren't rolleyes
"If you spent more time listening to the GamerGate side..."
You know what, I did when this thing first started a few months ago. But as tweet after tweet with the hashtag "GamerGate" was just a bunch of grumpy gamer who were ranting about women expressing their opinons and going so far as to threaten them, it became harder to see the "ethics in journalism" part of their cause, espicially considering that their mascot is a rape joke. And also the fact that many gamers themselves denounced the members and supporters of GamerGate as bitter individuals that made the gaming community look bad. Especially after actress and gamer Felicia Day was doxxed, right after she expressed fears about being doxxed by GamerGate.
