GamerGate dudes are very, very nasty people

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

This comment gets at an important part of this story:

I don’t think even Orwell predicted the Newspeak-y confusion over censorship that has become so ubiquitous — “my freedom of speech is infringed upon unless people with views I dislike are made to remain silent; it is censorship when others express certain views”.

But of course, threats of physical violence are an attempt at censorship — that is the whole point of the threat, to get someone to shut up.

The people whining about women who talk about games seem to think that if women talk about games, then that is somehow censorship of their views.

And these people all seem to be dealing with mental health issues:

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    http://gawker.com/these-are-the-creepy-4chan-successors-behind-gamergates-1648966614
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