{"id":5737,"date":"2014-10-06T15:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T20:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2014-10-06T15:28:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T20:28:28","slug":"gamersgate-intel-lets-spoiled-manchildren-think-theyre-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/10\/06\/gamersgate-intel-lets-spoiled-manchildren-think-theyre-important\/","title":{"rendered":"GamersGate: Intel lets spoiled manchildren think they&#8217;re important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSo GamersGate. A bunch of petulant man children from the open sewer of the internet got roped into some creep&#8217;s crusade against his ex-girlfriend under the banner of &#8220;objective gaming journalism&#8221;, spewed the usual mix of rape and death threats against her, but Zoe Quinn, their intended victim, turned out to be smarter than the lot of them and <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/strictmachine\/gameovergate\">had infiltrated their main planning channel for weeks<\/a>. These losers are still sputtering on, the 101st chairborne brigade fighting a losing war against the forces of social justice on blogs and Twitter, a tweet too far.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat kind of lame company would let themselves be roped into their campaign and feel pressured to withdraw advertising from a gaming site just because they say so? <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/2014\/10\/06\/we-must-dissent-intel-bows-to-gamergate-campaign-to-silence-feminist-video-game-critics\/\">Intell, that&#8217;s who<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGamerGate\u2019s ballyhooed success with Intel reveals them to be a movement for \u201cjournalistic integrity\u201d that is willing to use major corporate sponsors to dictate the editorial content of a website for no reason other than the fact that they disagree with it. As a \u201cconsumer revolt,\u201d it has shown itself to be a neoliberal nightmare wherein large corporations are the heroes and plucky independent journalists are the \u201celite\u201d villains who need to be toppled.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n(Incidently, the habit of Feministing here to blank out the Twitter accounts sending death threats in their screenshots but not those of the victims of said threats is mildly annoying.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBy giving in to blackmail, Intel has enabled the most whining, dumbest and aggressive part of videogaming &#8220;culture&#8221; to terrorise more women and the websites that publish them, in exchange for much more negative p.r. than it would&#8217;ve had, had it refused to play ball. The LoserGaters are a noisy and obnoxious part of gaming, but they&#8217;re only a minority. Normal people, sane people, want nothing to do with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So GamersGate. A bunch of petulant man children from the open sewer of the internet got roped into some creep&#8217;s crusade against his ex-girlfriend under the banner of &#8220;objective gaming journalism&#8221;, spewed the usual mix of rape and death threats against her, but Zoe Quinn, their intended victim, turned out to be smarter than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305],"tags":[2047,2048],"class_list":["post-5737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekdom","tag-gamersgate","tag-intel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5738,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions\/5738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}