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Overview

Peter Bright's Child Solicitation Arrest refers to the arrest of Ars Technica technology reporter Peter Bright, known on Twitter as @DrPizza, who was charged with one count of attempted enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity in late May 2019.

Background

On May 23rd, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York filed a complaint against Bright, alleging that he had been contacted by an undercover FBI agent on the social media fetish platform KinkD under the handle "randomanon." In the complaint, the agent states they had told Bright they were a 7-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son, and began having sexually explicit conversations on WhatsApp.

Developments

Online Reaction

On June 7th, journalist Andy Ngo tweeted screenshots of several tweets posted by Bright (shown below).

Peter Bright tweeted a lot. Including about molestation and sex abuse. pic.twitter.com/lcq9tFILGx
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 8, 2019

In the coming days, posts about the arrest reached the front page of subreddits /r/KotakuInAction,^[4] /r/Drama,^[7] /r/The_Donald^[6] and /r/conspiracy.^[5] On June 8th, a thread about Bright was submitted to the /g/ (technology) board on 4chan,^[8] where a compilation of Bright's tweets was submitted (shown below).

@DrPizza Pumpkin Fright Pumpkin Fright Follow Follow @DrPizza The point that society likes to think of itself as vigorously anti-p--------- but does little or nothing useful about it is important. @DrPizza so what you're saying is it's ok to m----- kids if they're already showing problem behaviour? J------- everywhere, and yet my row is old justice. women. There's no 2:31 PM 12 Aug 2014 7:09 PM 18 Oct 2009 7 Retweets 5 Likes Bill Mitchell@mitchellvi 5Retweets Pumpkin Fright Follow Moore's 14 year old accuser claims his assault on her lead to a life of bad behavior, @DrPizza but we find the custody hearing he met her at was because her mother wanted to give 9 t her up to her father for BAD BEHAVIOR. She was already a head case before she even Then they not speak out, because l am not a p---------. came for the paedophiles, and I did met Moore (if she did). Pumpkin Fright Follow @DrPizza 8:36 PM - 22 Nov 2017 There is an astonishing amount of j------- on this flight. Looks like some school orchestra or similar. 11 Likes 6:29 PM - 23 Dec 2014 Pumpkin Fright Follow 25 Retweets 18 Likes @DrPizza 6:26 PM 18 Oct 2009 Pumpkin Fright Replying to @jonatha nmpierce Follow @DrPizza 4 Likes 11 Retweets As someone named DrPizza I dread to think Good god, I am sweating like a p--------- in a nursery school. I feel awful. what my involvement in pizzagate will turn 4 4 ti11 out to be. Pumpkin Fright 6:30 AM 13 Mar 2009 Follow 10:22 PM -9 May 2017 @DrPizza 18 Retweets 8 Likes Admiring the j------- on the train, rowr. 109 Retweets 73 Likes KPumpkin Fright Follow 5:37 AM - 15 May 2009 @DrPizza Pumpkin Fright Follow 37 Retweets 9 Likes I am sweating like a p--------- in a nursery school.This plane is sweltering @DrPizza I am sweating like a paedobear in a nursery school...NYC is damn sticky. 15 9 t 37 4:45 PM 11 Oct 2009 Pumpkin Fright 6:58 PM -28 Jul 2009 Follow 7 Retweets 5 Likes @DrPizza 23 Retweets 16 Likes Replying to @tomwarren 5 t 7 @tomwarren f------ lolling at the child molester. @tomwarren f------ lolling molester. at the child 8:03 PM 29 Mar 2011 2 Retweets 1 Like

News Media Coverage

In the coming days, articles about Bright's arrest were published on Boing Boing The Daily Dot. Additionally, the gaming news blog One Angry Gamer^[3] published an article referring to Bright as an "Anti-#Gamergate journalist."

Search Interest

External References

^[1] Boing Boing – Ars Technica writer Peter Bright aka @DrPizza arrested

^[2] The Daily Dot – Tech reporter charged with soliciting child sex online

^[3] One Angry Gamer – Anti-#Gamergate journalist Peter Bright

^[4] Reddit – /r/KotakuInAction

^[5] Reddit – /r/conspiracy

^[6] Reddit – /r/The_Donald

^[7] Reddit – /r/Drama

^[8] Archive.is – /g/ – Technology

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Ana Betts @anaisbetts 12 Aug 2018 Notorious S.M.I.R.K. @JJDoebler · Feb 19 Pumpkin Fright V O @DrPizza PUMPKIN FRIGHTO Agree - when male streamers refuse to collaborate with women, it creates yet Please include how someone, who the article wasn't about, decided to make it PETER BRIGHT CoDE another glass ceiling for women trying to build their audience about themself, because they stopped being relevent to anything. @DrPizza @DrPizza Then ask her how that gamejam is going, and when her game will be finished. * Follow Oh shiť, Far Cry 4 is f-----, GamerGate is boycotting it. reddit.com/r/KotakulnActi 4 here's how you can tell that gamergate was not about ethics in games journalism: Pumpkin Fright V O @DrPizza #gamergatelegaladvice if two different people write something you don't like, that's a RICO violation Pumpkin Fright @DrPizza 6:39 PM - 17 Nov 2014 Replying to GeoffreyHuntley @paulcbetts and 2 others Replying to JJDoebler @jessesingal 2 Retweets 4 Likes It's like gamergate never happened in your world. their reaction to supposedly corrupt coverage by a compromised journalist was not to make an evidence-backed RETWEETS LIKES The article was about GG and that makes it 25 74 4 https://archive.fo/WI9TM about ZQ, because GG was about ZQ, not ethics in games journalism. 3:08 PM - 27 Jan 2017 4:27 PM - 12 Aug 2018 https://archive.fo/wwt08 case against the journalist, but to go after the developer the journalist was covering. 6 3 17 25 V 74 https://archive.fo/wqqpq Pumpkin Fright V O @DrPizza If you're concerned about quid pro quo in games journalism, it's the AAA publishers and developers you need to look at, not indie devs. PUMPKIN FRIGHT @DrPizza - 2h Pumpkin Fright lemme guess: gators, who like to attack "SJWS" for being too concerned about their precious fee-fees also think that Hogan deserves $115M. @DrPizza The perfect NYE cocktail: The GamerGate. 1 part piss 1 part vinegar 1 part tears Drink from a glass rimmed with salt. 5:41 PM - 15 Dec 2017 17 1 ... More ethical behaviour from the #gamergate shitbuckets: storify.com/srhbutts/if-yo ... If they don't like you, they call you a r-----. 1 Retweet 8 Likes Rob Graham* @ErrataRob - 2h @DrPizza My guess is they would side with Gawker on the issue. 8:28 PM - 19 Feb 2019 from Brooklyn, NY https://archive.fo/HOVF7 t7 1 ... PETER BRIGHT VO @DrPizza - 12m 3:36 PM - 20 Dec 2014 2:59 PM - 31 Dec 2014 PUMPKIN FRIGHT @DrPizza - 2h moreover, that hounding was not done in some effort to demonstrate that the Pumpkin Fright @DrPizza @ErrataRob guess again reddit.com/r/KotakulnActi.. developer had, say, consistently sought to bribe or entrap journalists. it was 2 Retweets 1 Like 2 Retweets 7 Likes View summary Sarah Nyberg, self confessed p-------- simply an effort to trash her name and slut shame her. it had no "ethics" ... rationale whatsoever. Still thě #gamergate shitlords claiming it's about "journalism ethics". https://archive.fo/8U9FL Gendou @Gendou - 2h 1 7 @DrPizza @ErrataRob: KIA would side with Satan, Galactus, and Adolf Hitler if it meant siding against Gawker (and therefore Jezebel). DarWINNING @Awesomekermit 20 Dec 2014 PETER BRIGHT &VO @DrPizza 12m ... 2:20 PM - 15 Oct 2014 Peter Bright "ethics in games journalism" was only ever a pretext. it's why the ethics Replying to @DrPizza @DrPizza complaints were, and remain, so specious. "journalists at different publications Gendou @Gendou - 2h @DrPizza #gamergate has shown me that a large swath of the dumbest and simultaneously most overconfident people work in the media. knew and talked to one another"; "journalists at different publications published articles we don't like". 1 Retweet 1 Like @DrPizza @ErrataRob: They're nothing if not predictable in their backwards anti-progressive rhetoric. Oh goð, you couldn't make it up. "#GamerGate is the most important battle of the culture war this century." dangerandplay.com/2014/11/22/gam... https://archive.fo/Yotva ... Pumpkin Fright V O @DrPizza 20 Dec 201 @Awesomekermit clap clap. PETER BRIGHT VO @DrPizza - 12m https://archive.fo/Qaslg it was transparent b------- from the very start; the only people taken in were Pumpkin Fright V PUMPKIN FRIGHTO * Follow @DrPizza people who wanted to be taken in, because they too felt threatened by (especially) women and minorities and, more specifically, games written for and @DrPizza 4:26 PM - 24 Nov 2014 tailored to those audiences. Pumpkin Fright V O @DrPizza Oh jollý good, a gator has started resurrecting all the gamergate posts to insist that Anita Sarkeesian is evil or something. @Gendou @ErrataRob child p--- on 8chan: free speech. reporting on the sex life of a public person who publicizes his sex life: unacceptable. 2 Retweets 2 Likes PETER BRIGHT & VO QDrPizza there is no good faith interpretation of gamergate, because no part of it was 12m Gator logic: "Clickbait journalism" from Gawker: BURN IT TO THE GROUND https://archive.fo/VPBHY ever in good faith. it wasn't a legitimate complaint coopted by bad guys; it was 6:39 PM - 4 Jan 2015 bad guys trying to give themselves a paper thin cover. LIKE 4 1 Retweet 1 Like Peter Bright https://archive.fo/v9122 1 CP on 8-chan: IT'S JUST FREEZE PEACH, STOP COMPLAINING @DrPizza 4:37 PM - 18 Mar 2016 https://archive.fo/HPafI https://archive.fo/buhDi Sam Prell O @SamPrell 3h i'm sure gamergate will respond to milo the way they responded to a (now-ex) nintendo employee whose essay they misunderstood 10:55 AM - 23 Dec 2014 To anyone who saw the GamerGate movement and thought, "I don't think they're so bad" or "it's about ethics," here it is, straight from Steve Bannon's 10 Retweets 21 Likes mouth: yes they were, no it wasn't, and you were played. FWIW I'm genuinely Pumpkin FrightV @DrPizza sorry. Mooshi Follow t 10 21 https://archive.fo/xRwtR @ltsAMoosh 9:11 PM - 19 Feb 2017 Nobodý who gives a s--- about a charity holds donations to ransom. Not so in Erik Kain O @erikkain @MatanJeda @ErrataRob @DrPizza Seriously. It's a privacy issue, people should have basic human decency. Hogan isn't a gov figure. 1 Retweet 6 Likes "I realized Milo could connect with these kids right away," Bannon told TuxedoPlasmosis @TuxedoPlasmosis · 23 Dec 2014 Green. "You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump." - Steve Bannon on Replying to @DrPizza @DrPizza @srhbutts For a minute I was afraid to google "FREEZE PEACH" because I thought it was slang for child p---. gamergate world! storify.com/x_glitch/when- 6 https://archive.fo/a3FSY Milo/Breitbart's use of #GamerGate to boost Trump. Show this thread 10:25 AM - 19 Oct 2014 Alison Rapp Is Entitled to Her Academic Views, But Her Defense Of Actual Child P---------- Distributors Is Unforgivable O 26 t7 774 5:37 PM - 18 Mar 2016 972 https://archive.fo/jJXuL 27 Retweets 15 Likes PETER BRIGHT Pumpkin Fright& V @DrPizza @DrPizza 17 27 https://archive.fo/Y7czw https://archive.fo/mCKqy 15 Pumpkin Fright V @DrPizza - 18 Mar 2016 Replying to @SamPrell Keeping it ethical, I see, you #gamergate shitdrinkers: Replying to @ltsAMoosh I'm not sorry. It's not like it was a secret. They were told. F--- every last one of them. PETER BRIGHT A @Mooshibit @MatanJeda @ErrataRob but Zoe Quinn's sex life is fair game, of course. gtfo. @DrPizza GethN7 Follow 4 Feb 24, 2016 - 3 min read https://archive.fo/CgV2x You'd think gamergate would have taught these companies to be a little more wary of knee jerk reactions to right wing bitching. Assuming it to be good faith is idiotic. lan Miles Cheong @stillgray 8:20 AM - 14 Dec 2017 Mooshi @ltsAMoosh 18 Mar 2016 (tw: r---, assault) I recently found out Alison Rapp, a Nintendo product marketing employee, 1 Retweet 17 Likes @DrPizza @MatanJeda @ErrataRob Zoe posed nude on her own. Her ex also What the f--- is wrong with people. A r--- fanfic of Zoe Quinn is never released any lewd stuff. It was a blown up cheating ex drama tbh wrote a thesis on why Japan shouldn't be forcing such strict enforcement of anti-child p--- laws. being sold on Amazon. 27 1 17 8:38 AM - 19 Dec 2014 Brian Stelter O @brianstelter 1 said, "Sometimes you just get one shat happened here. We made our in MSNBC president's statement re: @SamSeder: "Sometimes you r the right reasons - because we don funny topic to be joked about. But 2 Retweets 3 Likes No, really. Cats. @aegies - 41m Welp. The gawker verdict has brought out the aquatic reptiles, as expected. just get one wrong – and that's what happened here." https://archive.fo/OKWYS bedback, and we understand the poin ake in that tweet was actually in ling n though the language was not. Sam nour air poing forward." 9 5 Tech reporter charged with soliciting child sex online V 16 He used the app KinkD. ... 4:44 PM - 7 Dec 2017 https://archive.fo/2joy0 PUMPKIN FRIGHTO . Follow 2 Likes Claire Goforth-2019-06-07 02:16 pm | Last updated 2019-06-07 03:59 pm @DrPizza @aegies such is their commitment to free speech, and their firm belief that "muh fee- fees" don't have any value. UKIGINAL Libertarian Weeaboo @CaptainWeeab00 - Dec 6 @DrPizza I have seen anti-gg endorsing genocide, harassing and boycotting a female developer and gg getting syringe and weapons thought mail CAPITALISt Approved: ALEXANDER Assistant United States Attorney Before: THE HONORABLE DEBRA FREEMAN United States Magistrate Judge Southern District of New York 4:50 PM - 18 Mar 2016 Peter Bright @DrPizza - Dec 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK :19MAG 495 2 Crecente @crecenteb - 29m @CaptainWeeab00 gg actively promotes boycotting. Why isn't the rest of the world allowed to boycott? https://archive.fo/ILIF4 - - - - - -- - - - -- - --- Joystiq's closure isn't a sign of the times, it's a stupid decision that hurts everyone polygon.com/e/7709666 pic.twitter.com/BpMkPYKZCb UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COMPLAINT Violations of 18 17 32 * 26 U.S.c. ss 2422 (b) and strelok @ markedone - 27m @DrPizza @aegies CAPITALISM Libertarian Weeaboo @CaptainWeeab00 - Dec 6 PETER BRIGHT, Defendant. @DrPizza So you support pressuring female devs not getting into the gaming industry? Richard Westmoreland @RSWestmoreland - 21m @crecenteb @DrPizza Interesting. They were on #GamerGate's boycott list. > gawker is an innocent saint > implying SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, Ss.: 17 ELIZABETH JENSEN, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she is a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and charges as follows: ThelvyClover1 @ThelvyClover1 - 7m Peter Bright O +2 Follow COUNT ONE (Attempted Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Illegal Sexual Activity) BECAUSE POLYGON FINANCIALLY SUPPORTS CORRUPT INDIE DEVELOPERS @DrPizza Alex @Droppinbodies05 - 27m @DrPizza @aegies Free speech isn't posting sextapes. DO'NT TRUST POLYGON @CaptainWeeab00 I support driving gators out of the industry. @RSWestmoreland @crecenteb @DrPizza pic.twitter.com/lwhQ5utfju From on or about April 18, 2019 up to and including on or about May 22, 2019, in the Southern District of' New York and elsewhere, PETER BRIGHT, the defendant, willfully and knowingly, did use a facility and means of interstate and foreign commerce to persuade, induce, entice, and coerce an individual who had not attained the age of 18 years to engage in sexual activity for which a person can be charged with a criminal offense, and attempted to do the same, to wit, BRIGHT used computers and/or telephones to communicate with an undercover FBI agent about 1. * 1 Peter Bright @DrPizza - 6m Show more @ThelvyClover1 @RSWestmoreland @crecenteb f--- off. Peter Bright/Twitter RETWEET FAVORITE 1 1 Urshurak @UrUrshurak - 20m @DrPizza @aegies Wow, you guys sure enjoy defending revenge p---. Warning: This article contains graphic sexual language. ThelvyClover1 @ThelvyClover1 - 3m ARS IS ON THAT LIST, AND PETER IS EXACTLY WHY THEY ARE https://archive.fo/femnl 12:01 PM - 6 Dec 2014 SAY IT TO MY FACE PETER Tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with ... @DrPizza @RSWestmoreland @crecenteb children online. He was employed by Ars Technica until recently. Peter Bright O 2 Follow Peter Bright @DrPizza - 3m @DrPizza A federal complaint alleges that Bright sought to m----- a 7- and @ThelvyClover1 @RSWestmoreland @crecenteb to repeat: f--- off. Pumpkin Fright & V o 9-year-old and met with an undercover agent for this purpose, at Video Gamers Are Having A Bizarre Debate Over Whether Sending Death Threats To Women Is A Serious Issue Or Not businessinsider.com/gamergate-deat ... Follow http://archive.vn/hwDIc @DrPizza which point he was arrested. It also states that Bright claimed to be Takua343 @takua343 - 1m in a sexual relationship with an 11-year-old. He is currently being People who have successfully had games modified to avoid offence: @oliverbcampbell People who haven't: @femfreq Which does GG like? Oh. @DrPizza @ThelvyClover1 @RsWestmoreland @crecenteb how angry are you to pop out of nowhere to say f--- off to someone calling out b-------? held without bail. ... BI: Tech Video Gamers Are Having A Bizarre Debate Oover Whether Sending Death... Peter Bright O +2 Follow To be clear, it's wrong. @DrPizza View on web 9:21 AM - 13 Dec 2014 @takua343 @ThelvyClover1 @RSWestmoreland @crecenteb m----------- started replying to me, I'm not "popping out of nowhere". RETWEETS FAVORITES 4 Retweets 9 Likes 43 20 https://archive.fo/8yusJ https://archive.fo/zNokN 3:15 PM - 13 Oct 2014 https://archive.fo/g3NtW

The Daily Dot Pumpkin Fright V O . · 16 Dec 17 there is no good faith interpretation of gamergate, because no part of it was ever in good faith. it wasn't a legitimate complaint coopted by bad guys; it was bad guys trying to give themselves a paper thin cover. Tech reporter charged with soliciting child sex online Claire Goforth- 2019-06-07 02:16 pm | Last updated 2019-06-07 04:28 pm 19MAG 4952 17 27 3 20 Show this thread Pumpkin Fright FO Replying to @internetjim anime is for pedos Peter Bright/Twitter · 10 Jul 17 Warning: This article contains graphic sexual language. Tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with children online. He was employed 10 3 by Ars Technica until recently. Pumpkin Fright & V kill all gamers 20 Mar 17 A federal complaint alleges that Bright sought to m----- a 7- and 9-year-old and met with an undercover agent for 2 this purpose, at which point he was arrested. It also states that Bright Pumpkin Fright & Replying to @srhbutts @srhbutts but if Anita gets her way, games writers might write more diverse female characters. That's obviously unacceptable. claimed to be in a sexual relationship · 19 Nov 14 with an 11-year-old. He is currently being held without bail. The complaint states that in subsequent messages, the agent informed Bright that she had a 7-year- old daughter and 9-year-old son. 2 2 At Bright's urging, the two then began chatting via WhatsApp, which Pumpkin Fright Replying to @UnburntWitch ah but do you really want some lecherous old scrote rooting through · 16 Jul 16 continued for a few weeks. At times using euphemisms, Bright reportedly wrote of molesting both children and r----- the 7-year-old. He also allegedly sent pictures of his penis, and photos your personal data of test results showing he did not have any sexually transmitted diseases. 1

Best Mom Eva @mombot I am still going through DrPizza's tweets. There's almost a quarter million of them Some of them, like this one, are starting to disappear. People are reporting them. Also, there is a rumor that he sent up a cryhowl about m*mb*t at some point. 20 Mar 2017 Pumpkin Fright, @DrPizza kill all gamers t 5 14 2 Best Mom Eva @mombot Replying toDrPizza

The Daily Dot = Tech reporter charged with soliciting child sex online Claire Goforth- 2019-06-07 02:16 pm | Last updated 2019-06-07 04:28 pm 19MAG 4952 Peter Bright/Twitter Warning: This article contains graphic sexual language. Tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with children online. He was employed by Ars Technica until recently. A federal complaint alleges that Bright sought to m----- a 7- and 9-year-old and met with an undercover agent for this purpose, at which point he was arrested. It also states that Bright claimed to be in a sexual relationship with an 11-year-old. He is currently being held without bail The complaint states that in subsequent messages, the agent informed Bright that she had a 7-year- old daughter and 9-year-old son At Bright's urging, the two then began chatting via WhatsApp, which continued for a few weeks. At times using euphemisms, Bright reportedly wrote of molesting both children and r----- the 7-year-old. He also allegedly sent pictures of his penis, and photos of test results showing he did not have any sexually transmitted diseases

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