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This may be a GamerGate-related entry and yes it should be under GamerGate Entry Subjects but hear me out for a minute. According to the sources from /r/KotakuInAction and OneAngryGamer, it started with a Gizmodo article (Archived) by Bryan Menegus on September 23rd, 2016 about Oculus Rift founder supporting Donald Trump and dating Nikki Moxxi (@nikkimoxxi) who is a GamerGate supporter. This cause sites like Ars Technica to attack Palmer Luckey. Suddenly NeoGAF jumps in to help Gizmodo supporters harass and attack his girlfriend Nikki Moxxi on Twitter until she closed her Twitter account for bullying. Palmer updated his Facebook page and stated that he actually supports Gary Johnson. Meanwhile at /r/KotakuInAction, GamerGate started Operation Double Vision (#OpDoubleVision) to stop Bryan Menegus from further articles that will lead to harassment.

All of this seems like very petty reporting from people whom I expect better from. Google is doing all these various shady or misguided programs with youtube heroes and its new censorship AI, as well as the entire google image search diversity debacle, and yet a persons girlfriend and presidential candidate is more pressing news.

Consider for a moment the absurdity of this entire situation. Say the creator of Vive had an article written about them in a tech magazine saying "This millionaire supports Candidate Hillary Clinton and is dating an SJW" and then having that story being mirrored in multiple, high profile tech magazines, with calls for sponsers to drop out of the Vive over it. Then a bunch of shit lords dogpilling onto the persons SJW girlfriend until they quit twitter, and people doing ops to try and tear down the entire Vive project over this.

Doesn't that sound, like a very petty and stupid thing? Because to me, it sounds like a very petty and stupid thing.

Say the creator of Vive had an article written about them in a tech magazine saying “This millionaire supports Candidate Hillary Clinton and is dating an SJW”

Imagine having a tech magazine using "SJW" unironically.

"Google is doing all these various shady or misguided programs with youtube heroes and its new censorship AI, as well as the entire google image search diversity debacle, and yet a persons girlfriend and presidential candidate is more pressing news."

Everyone knows the media prioritizes the petty arguments of celebrities over things that can actually affect you.

Also, is Gamergate still not dead?

The media endorsing harassment campaigns against right wingers?

Color me fucking shocked

>Complain about people who talk bad about SJW's
>Lump everyone into a group and trash talk them.

Nothing outta the ordinary here. Just another day on the internet.

Also this wasn't a bunch of twelve year olds. These are grown ass adults who have jobs, using said jobs to attack people for their political leanings.

The fact you gotta defend them this hard cause gg is involved is pretty sad.

I blame Skankhunt42.

Where did you get the impression I'm defending them?

I don't support harassment in any form, I'm just pointing out the irony of a toxic community that's harassed people in the past whining when another toxic community harasses them. All this is is a bunch of jackasses with double standards.

Dude.
This is multiple major online outlets publishing articles decrying a guy for being in a relationship with a "Suppressive Person" and supporting the wrong presidential candidate via donations, which then caused an organize effort to shit on them to be whipped up.
Believe if you want that a significant number of people associated with GG went too far with their mean tweets, but that's not the same thing as what's going on here.
Oh, and since it hasn't been mentioned yet, this fiasco has caused multiple devs to jump ship on the Oculus, because of course it has.

Tbh fampai, this post you wrote here, taken out of context, could describe either side of the whole debacle.

Anyway regarding OP, I'd say just add it to the main GG entry rather than give it its own. The main reason GG still won't die after so long is because both sides keep baiting and reverse-baiting each other with stupid-ass manufactured controversy. IMO all Gamergaters are Gamergaters, whether "for" or "against" or however the fuck they describe themselves. That includes a lot of those "Ghazi" people.

Also is it a given that OP can be objective, given that they are known to show strong preference for one side of the Gamergate?

That would be the day.

I find it really, really sad that the political climate here in the US has gotten to the point where people are discriminating and boycotting other people based on which candidate they support. Definitely doesn't bode well for the future.

I thought that the story here was the fact that (apparently) Luckey was funding a group who posts anti-Hillary memes. I'm pretty sure that's the reason why devs are moving, to distance themselves from that, not some dedicated harassment plan from journalists against him.

Oh man dude he was funding memes!? MEMES!? That changes everything!

Looks like we found someone on their pay list.