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EMOTHERBOARD ,】http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sxsw has-approved-a-gamergate-panel tos. /archive.is/DIVVV ㄧ SXSW Just Added a GamerGate Panel wrltten by KARI PAUL October 23, 2015 01:23 PM EST Prospective SXSW attendees are asking the festival to clarify its security plans after a panel about the controversial online movement about video game culture GamerGate was approved this week Although the event, "SavePoint - A Discussion on the Gaming Community," is not described on the schedule as explicitly GamerGate-affiliated, several ofits panelists have been involved in the hashtag movement The pane will be moderated by PerryJones. It will feature speakers Mercedes Carrera, Nick Robalik, and Lynn Walsh from the Society of Professional Journalists, who moderated another GamerGate panel in August that was interrupted a bomb threat. The August incident was not the first time a GamerGate panel was shut down by bomb threats In light of those incidents as well as past harassment and threats from members of GamerGate, many people have expressed concern about the panel on Twitter and some have vowed not to attend the festival Writer Sydette Harry called the decision "b-------," tweeting that she was "utterly and canonically tired of EVERYONE in light of SXSW's decision to allow a GamerGate panel. "Stop saying'lwant to be fair' as a way of minimizing folks feelings of fear and trauma to justify what you like," she said One prospective speaker on a separate panel who has been harassed and stalked by GamerGate notified SXSW organizers that she feels unsafe in light ofthe panel's approval and received the following response, which she called "patronizing." Hi fname redactedj We appreciate your thoughts and always wefcome feedback from our community. That said, SXSW is a big tent and we strongly believe in showcasing a very diverse range of ideas and opinions, even if we as a staff don't always agree with them. If everyone shared the same viewpoint, that would make for a pretty boring event. Cheers, -andrew "It raises the question, what is a debate?" she said. "It's good to include all voices, but what if one of the v s is extreme ntagonistic? Then it becomes, this debate, yo Although manytargets of Gamerate and prospective attendees have laid out concerns, PerryJones, the founder of and editor for the Open Gaming Society and the GamerGate panel's organizer, said he is committed to keeping an "open and cordial iscussion" at the event. He sa his organization, which keeps a "neutral stance" on GamerGate, will be providing its on security in addition to the coverage SXSW provides ed in the last ye t to reflect but we won't l things get out of hand," he said. "You can be certain that any disruptions, agit or 'pot stirring will be dealt with swiftly." ma ed to the GamerGa ag mo im ofthe gaming community, the impo sm e future ofthe gaming community SXSW told Mo sti stival, whi list who r d out to organizers about her safety concerns still n't heard back, which she said is reflective of larger is ity in the tech world wom ommunity that you're growing no is story said Perry jo ing the pa re Lynn Walsh wo ng) ect. Perry Lynn Wal NOT SURE IFI'M BEING INFORMED OHYOU OR MANIPULATED STOP IT

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Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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Something about feeling that a debate cannot have "antagonistic" participants doesn't really strike me as comforting. Also, how does one become "canonically" done with something outside of a fictional story?

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