Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

The defendant also argues that § 2332a is an unconstitutional use of Congress's powers under the Commerce Clause.

what could go wrong

Through the lens of GamerGate

IT WAS A GOOF

See now mh's neighb story is what pisses me off about all this. Guy makes one anthrax joke on the phone and gets time in the slammer.

Guys make endless, repeated, direct threats of death and rape to women online here and... nothing? Cops say 'stop looking at it'? People say "trolls wll b trolls"? Fucks sake.

well, he did say this less than one month after someone sent anthrax to people in the US

whereas we're def at 31+ days without incident when it comes to violence against US women. good job USA!

that is... not what I was implying

oh fuck is accuracy the standard for cheap zings now?

wtf

you used violence against women for a cheap zing? not parsing something right here.

The difference between writing something on the internet and calling a 30-year-old national mortgage company and verbally saying something is pretty great. For one thing I'm sure Countrywide has a strict policy about what to do when someone says something like that. Their entire business is based around stability and mitigating risk.

Also LOL at the number 2 result when I googled Countrywide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countrywide_financial_political_loan_scandal

But thats the point, why should it be? Why is it any less punishable on social media?

And for that matter, thats bollocks, given that kid who posted the cop and gun emojis on FB and got arrested for it.

Social media is not reality

because people don't think of words against women as imminent threats and local police are either uninformed, unequipped, or biased

federal action is a decent option and it looks like the FBI is in the loop on some recent cases, especially viable due to the interstate nature of internet threats.

women getting harmed as a result of a direct threat from strangers online should be actionable! but to an extent, local police are right -- harm comes usually from people known to the victim, and they're poorly trained to filter the outliers.

also police are really self-protecting and reactionary, them construing anything other than praise as a threat is kind of their standard.

Social media is not reality

Bullshit.

I think he meant that sarcastically but AB speaks in very strictly worded screeds so idk

Oh ok, if that is so, my apologies. Irony is hard to read on here.

I just mean there is a difference between telling someone personally with your own voice vs. posting a video that reaches a thousand people simultaneously and is admittedly not posted in full faith.

The police are also there to protect moneyed interests, of which a mortgage company is #1. Versus, say, a video game commentator.

Yeah, if it is someone you know you can gauge their intent, with a stranger you can't tell, absent past interaction or public history, whether they are a wackjob who will drive across country to kill you.

Just because twitter has a wide audience does not diminish the fact the threats in question are clearly directed at a specific person!

Not to mention some of the women having gotten privately sent emails/messages/videos of genuine threat. Are they also no real?

No they are definitely real. Maybe I should have said "Not of importance to authority figures" instead.

I mean, look at the writings or Internet comments of any spree shooter. People might say all kinds of shit, but some of them are completely for real, and it's not random citizen's ability to tell which is which.

OK I accept theyre not "real" to the authorities, but that just goes back to the point I was making. They should be.

Is threats over a carriage service not a crime in the US? It is in my country.

offs people.

mh, the zing was cheap in that i understood your intent was not to trivialize non-anthrax threats

The US justice system has a great deal of issues, particularly at the moment. I am putting this extremely lightly.

ah, I rest my arguments

also when I read carriage I thought of a horse and buggy

lol @ "particularly at the moment"

http://badassdigest.com/2015/03/03/davis-aurini-fired-from-serious-investigative-documentary-the-sarkeesian-ef/

entertaining

This is gonna be great

shocked

#teamdavis

The difference between writing something on the internet and calling a 30-year-old national mortgage company and verbally saying something is pretty great. For one thing I'm sure Countrywide has a strict policy about what to do when someone says something like that. Their entire business is based around stability and mitigating risk.

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 9:30 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also LOL at the number 2 result when I googled Countrywide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countrywide_financial_political_loan_scandal

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 9:31 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm guessing you weren't very old yet in 2008-09

Old enough to have Insider Money in Politics Scandal Where No-One Goes to Jail fatigue.

omg that link upthread

Cinephiles everywhere have been following the production of The Sarkeesian Effect, a work of serious investigative journalism that we first mentioned back in August. Spearheaded by skull fancier Davis Aurini and bathrobe couture pioneer Jordan Owen, it seeks to expose the corruption and collusion of Social Justice Warriors like Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn, including but not limited to their reckless squandering of crowdfunded money.

I was not aware there was a fiduciary duty between crowdfunder and crowdfundees.

that's a parody right? I mean that reads like the Onion.

It is entirely sarcastic.

I hope Aurini lost the skull in the divorce

Old enough to have Insider Money in Politics Scandal Where No-One Goes to Jail fatigue.

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, March 3, 2015 6:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, I mean the fact that Countrywide was basically at the epicenter of the mortgage crisis and would no longer exist if not bought by Bank of America. Just kind of lulzy to say that the House of Mozillo's "entire business is based around stability and mitigating risk."

xp i was totally fooled, i admit, though it was real

It is a sarcastic article about a real thing that is happening

it's not THAT different from the actual pro-GG articles that are out there

oh come on it's laid on so thick

If "bathrobe couture pioneer Jordan Owen" isn't a dead giveaway then I dont something.

All that’s left to do is “the editing, the animations, and possibly a bit of fact-checking” - which any filmmaker knows are minor and even unimportant elements of the documentary process.

ok i admit i probably stopped reading in earnest by that point