Institutions need policies to protect staff from these kind of reputational attacks, of which Gamergate was a prototype. If you’re a marginalised academic, for example, does your uni have a plan for the day you wake up to 200 emails calling you a nonce for being “woke”?
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Musk describing Ashley Thomas, the director of climate diversification for the U.S. International Finance Corporation as occupying a 'fake job' to his millions of followers is an example of the type of uninformed witch hunt that will become commonplace under Trump.
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#consequences
But seriously, good seeing you here.
Biden should address this, pronto
#whitepeople
Gamergate began with an August 2014 blog entry called "The Zoe Post" by Quinn's ex-boyfriend, which falsely insinuated
Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") claimed to be promoting ethics in video game
But I'm not holding my breath that it's gonna be enforced
(or actually experienced it in the few cases of PoC & female GGers- often by their own)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsf-M5Ux6kmWhslAcfn_0kn1c7sJ5MGwD&si=5HLQ228-LkIXroEF
saw it develop was part of the hysterical "sjws" hate to say this was predictable from early on
I definitely think it was like testing the waters for what works specifically online, and it's a shame that these tactics can still work just as they did back then.
The government isn’t going to save us from the government.
Men with great power who ignore policies at every turn, aren’t going to be stopped by a new policy.
see also: https://youtu.be/Lhe7inINRm0
Bullies never stopped a tornado