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#GamerGate's scary plan to wipe Gawker Media from the face of the Earth Updated by Todd VanDerWerffon October 30, 2014, 2:20 p.m. ET @tvoti y TWEET (59) f SHARE (5) g, +1 in LINKEDIN EMAIL PRINT Most Rea Don't get what's wrong with Here's why it's so offe Nintendo 2 This is what North America w ㄩ SELE START on Jupiter 3 The woman who filmed the vir catcalling is already getting: 4 One poll that explains why t divided on Common #GamerGate's latest tactic aims to wipe Gawker Media from the face of the Earth. Shutterstock 5 DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW VOx! Likeolw 163K followers email address Follow163K followers GO received One of the most fascinating things about #GamerGate, the purported attempt by gamers to raise issues of ethics in games journalism that has functionally turned out to primarily be about harassing women online, is the way that it has pointed out a bunch of underlying weaknesses in the online media model, weaknesses that future movements may exploit to even greater benefit. Get Vox in youri These weaknesses may have been stumbled upon accidentally, but they reveal just how shaky the business model of online publishing still is. It's unlikely that #GamerGate will succeed at what it's trying to do, which is functionally cause Gawker Media to cease to exist as a company, but its strategy is something that has the potential to be incredibly destructive ema ress By signing up, you agree to our The problem with advertising I wrote a little bit last week about how the movement seemed to intuitively grasp that advertiser boycotts of online media would go much further than they did in the old days of print and broadcast media being the only games in town. The movement even got normally implacable Gawker to apologize for tweets one of its writers made, rather than anything published on the site It's the movement's latest tactic that's truly innovative, however. In a movement dubbed "Operation Baby Seal," the subreddit Kotaku!nAction (one of the two or three actual websites where #GamerGate participants congregate to talk shop) is aiming to get angry #GamerGate participants to write letters of complaint to Google AdSense and Amazon's similar advertising program to get them to yank advertising at the source. Rather than complaining to actual advertisers, Operation Baby Seal aims to complain to the middlemen who funnel ads from the advertisers to sites that need them. Cut off Google AdSense for one site, and a huge, major source of revenue is lost. How will Operation Baby Seal manage this trick? It's not particularly clear (and, I should say here, the operation ems unlikely to succeed for sheer logistical reasons) but it mostly involves having aggrieved gamers send bunches and bunches of complaint emails about Gawker Media sites violating Google and Amazon's terms of service. (Yes, the #GamerGate folks read the terms of service.) The examples are to be drawn from this wiki, which collects a bunch for easy collation into form letters THE GRUDGE BETWEEN #GAMERGATE AND GAWKER MEDIA RUNS DEEP

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Oct 30, 2014 at 05:33PM EDT

Vox Media: I found out you've been going after advertisers to pressure them to stop funding Gawker. I want to know where you learned to do that young man? Who taught you to do that!?"

Gamers: FROM YOU, OKAY!? I learned it from watching you.

Remember that time gawker told its readers to pressure advertisers of big companies in order to get people fired for stuff they said that was bad?

Well turnabout is fair game.

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Oct 30, 2014 at 06:13PM EDT

I don't think you understand, this is the Order 66 of Gaming Journalism. Except with a lot less sadness, and a lot more rejoicing.

Wipe them out, all of them.

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Ya see that folks! Even vox admits, if operation baby seal works, it'll be a massive blow. So keep sending those reports.

Here's a link to a page on the op and how to participate

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