GamerGate - RavenCon's Twitter Response, Official Response following Ralph's Removal from event

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RavenCon @RavenCon -24h Great to hear, @TheRalphRetort. @RavenCon security and Chesterfields Finest look forward to your shenanigans. #zer○tolerance RavenCon @RavenCon Follow わt735 ★52 TheRalph @TheRalphRetort- 24h @RavenCon Are you threatening me? Official #RavenCon2015 statement. (Facebook) #GamerGate わt366 ★106 facebook.com/ravencon/posts RavenCon @RavenCon Follow RETWEETS FAVORITE youtu.be/18ukak8P2VY @TheRalphRetort 8:41 AM- 25 Apr 2015 Like Page YouTube RavenCon 5 hrs - e Help! I'm Being Repressed! (Short Version) We received the following request from Breitbart concerning an event that occurred at RavenCon Dear Mr Pederson I'm hearing reports that web journalist Ethan Ralph has been expelled from an event at your convention Can you confirm this is correct, and if so, can you tell me what specific rule he violated? Many thanks Allum Bokhari Breitbart News The following is our reply: Thank you for contacting us. We appreciate you taking due diligence and asking for facts Mr. Ralph was not ejected from our event, but asked by a member of the RavenCon staff to leave the panel on the request of the guest hosting. As is common with many panels, this guest had requested no recording of any kind by attendees, and Mr. Ralph-who had not identified himself as a journalist- began taking photographs before RavenCon could publically state this. As seen in this video-https://youtu.be/24lW 9uCI _ Mr. Ralph was requested to leave, and he did so peacefully and gracefully. Mr. Ralph still holds his convention badge and we welcome him to attend the rest of the event provided he adheres to the rules of the convention as posted on our website at http://www.ravencon.com/wp-content/uploads/.../04/ConRules.pdf We welcome journalists at RavenCon. Journalists that contact us in advance are eligible to receive press passes, and we are happy to pre- arrange guest interviews prior to the opening of our event. Mr. Ralph is welcome to contact us for future events through our website ravencon.com 4) 0:05 / 0:16 Help! I'm Being Repressed! (Short Version) A brief bit of the repressed peasant sketch from Monty Python's The Holy Grail View on web RETWEETS FAVORITES 26 2:13 PM -24 Apr 2015 Kota White @KotaWhite 24h @RavenCon @TheRalphRetort Ralph; just get ahold of the con managers.. whoever is running their twitter is out of line 77 *25 Mike Caputo @hanytimeh 24h are you saying there's a political litmus test for attending the convention? @RavenCon @TheRalphRetort わt710 ★22 TheRalph @TheRalphRetort 24h RavenCon I hope you guys make the mistake of throwing me out without cause. I'd love it, in fact. So please, keep it up, thug. #GamerGate わ2.25 ★65

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ToySoldier

Apr 25, 2015 at 07:04PM EDT

Technically speaking, Ralph was ejected from the panel for no reason. The "no videos" rule was not established until well after the event took place. Adding onto that, the person taking video wasn't punished, and I sincerely doubt he was being inconspicuous about recording. Simply put, Ralph posted a single photo before the panel ever even began and Wu went ape shit and demanded he leave because she didn't like him. He did nothing wrong and security had no right to remove him from the panel. If there was a no photography rule it needed to be established either on the pamphlet stating the Wu was gonna be doing a GG panel, or by a security personnel standing at the entrance to the panel. If neither of these things were established then Wu and the convention security overstepped their boundaries.

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