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

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

Aurini hit back with some highly charged language. He goes on a lengthy rant about Owen, whose “irrational jealousy of [pick-up artist, MRA, and “love tourist”] Roosh, and any man who’s able to relate to women easily”

Man, red pill infighting is a treat.

I love how none of these logic-based knowledge masters got anything in writing. Amateurs.

i gather that this controversy has sort of been pared down to nothing but true die hards on all sides, which means a lot of personal drama which thankfully even i don't have the curiosity to get into

however, i checked the feed of one dude who's always seemed like a good, reasonable writer, and found this funny exchange:

https://twitter.com/ZenOfDesign/status/572661703860625408

see the responses from 'nikolov' -- the argument is basically: a harrassment-soaked sewer is what makes gaming great. i honestly think they should have gone with this argument from the beginning

lmao @ gamergate auteur beef so perfect

good job google

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/573660135165419520

so many platforms so many social accounts so much engagement its tuff

lol, there was no reason to hit that wasps nest and yet

they were just like "i will tweet a meme"

*dies*

I bet they thought #GamerGate referred neutrally to the dispute rather than to one side in it.

or that account is run by a hardcore gamergater who thought he was posting it to his personal @killsarkeesianlol account

The picture of the hand and the controller, how does it work