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Adult film actress and Gamergater Mercedes Carrera was arrested on Tuesday for alleged sexual abuse of a young child Carrera (real name Melinda Smith) was arrested by the Rancho Cucamonga Police Department alongside adult film producer and director Jason Whitney. Credit: Nicole Comstock @ComstockNEWS on Twitter From Newsweek: Adult film actress Melinda Smith—or Mercedes Carrera, as fans know[...]

GamerGate saw the same tactics used, both in circumventing Twitter's rules around conduct, and in targeting and harassing people of colour, women, trans women, and other members of the LGBTQ community And many of the users talked about above are actively modelling their own movement within the comics industry on the heinous actions of this[...]

While you may have missed it, the game is considered controversial due to a connection with GamerGate As much as I hate to name-check GG, and as much as they hate it when I name-check them, this one isn't my call at all. The facts are pretty much established on that case, as the GG community[...]

In 2014, the site redirected to the 8chan board on GamerGate, and in 2015, it pointed to the official Ted Cruz campaign page The GamerGate subreddit has asked the question: was one of them? And the answer was a surprising "no." So we went looking. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid[...]

But it's wholly bizarre, and the main thing to take from this (from an organisational point of view) is to call the person or their representative about any irregularities. One tweet suggested that it could even be some kind of gamergate style action, and that's not outside of the realms of possibility, given how the world is[...]

It is my guiltiest of pleasures. I may not be alone in that. Empowered by Adam Warren published by Dark Horse, the feminist cheesecake bondage comic, that

Yesterday, we reported on the decision by SXSW to cancel two panels which, rightly or wrongly, people had associated with the GamerGate controversy Since then the story has gone global, being reported by everyone from the New York Times to Entertainment Weekly to The Guardian. Last night, one of the panellists for what was seen as the pro-Gamergate side,[...]

We're kind of the experts. — sext from tom nook (@randileeharper) October 26, 2015 SXSW has made no offer to reimburse our airfare or hotel deposits. — sext from tom nook (@randileeharper) October 26, 2015 This was even more ironic in the face of the news that SXSW had already approved a Gamergate-related panel, without having to go through any[...]

In the interview, he even called out GamerGate specifically, saying: I am a feminist Proud to be a feminist. My mom raised me to be a feminist My father raised me, he was a different generation but he raised me to respect and defend everyone's rights, and I deeply grounded my own identity in that, and I[...]

UPDATE: Make that "had" a booth… Turns out it was the work of The Honey Badger Brigade, a satirical Gamergate supporting anti-censorship and male support group. @CaptainNovolin Actually they have been asked to leave — Calgary Expo (@Calgaryexpo) April 17, 2015 The original article runs below. A booth at Calgary Expo has a Gamergate banner, selling Vivian James art, a[...]

Ever since #gamergate and #notyourshield Twitter hashtags ripped the gaming industry in twain, there have been enquiries as to whether the comic book industry, creators, journalists, fans, would go through a similar… experience. Some thought that the Milo Manara Spider-Woman controversy would be that moment, in the belief that Marvel Comics had cancelled Manara's upcoming variant[...]

Well, I'm sure this will blow over without incident. The next episode of Law and Order: SVU might look a little familiar to those of you keeping up with the happenings of GamerGate and Anita Sarkeesian The episode is called Intimidation Game and here is the synopsis from NBC's website: When a woman is attacked at a[...]

However a number of those who object to his support for the #Gamergate controversy are trying to get him uninvited, with a petition. In one specific instance, Baldwin directly linked to videos that disclosed the personal details (commonly known as "doxxing") of game developers Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu to his several thousand twitter followers[...]

Journalists and bloggers have been under fire from the Gamergate hashtag about perceived faults in their code of ethics The worst parts of gamer culture reared their ugly head too, fighting to oppose "social justice warriors", leading to several vicious online harassment cases, predominantly against women developers and commenters It was just an ugly year[...]

I met up with Abigail Brady in the pub last night. Writer, software designer, she is one of the inspirations behind the character Abigail Beryl Burns,

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