Giant bomb put out a statement:
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/letter-from-the-editor-10-17-2014/1100-5049/
Makes a good point, what does gamergate actually accomplish and if ethics in journalism is actually your major interest then gamergate is not the arena to make fruitful progress in. Nothing specific, but more of a cease fire to reflect on what little has been accomplished and what is really important.
Careful, what these people lack in integrity and reason, they make up for it with their machiavellian psychopathy. Time and time again they've tried to make the issue go away, first "gamers are dead", then "stop gamergate" hashtag.
Which of course was a major dud
These attempts to minimize or simply dismiss the concerns out of hand are just desperate attempts by these people not to win through merit of argument, but by controlling the narrative.
Don't underestimate the underhandedness of these people, they are socially adept manipulators, its why they have infiltrated so many areas we are concerned with.
Most of what that statement comes to is just black propaganda. It just reinforces yet again the false notions that gamergate harasses women while pretending to take a step back from it all. Its just spinning the false narrative all over again.
It draws false equilvance when the fact is the anti gamergate side has had the power of the establishment behind it to bully people. Flooding a dozen "gamer is dead" articles in a day to poison the narrative and smear people preemptively, silencing people en masse with banning and deletion campaigns, this isn't the work of gamergate, the people who hold the power and the biggest soap boxes are all on their side, they've lied and abused people for two months now and can only point to a few anonymous threats of dubious merit. While on their side they've been doxing, ddosing, banning, dmca'ing, suspending twitter accounts and just smearing gamers on every platform they can manage to reach. Its quite literally been a one sided beating gamers have been taking from these people. There is no equivalence at all.
And his true colors really show when he says things like " To watch talented folks like Jenn Frank get pushed right up to a breaking point " Yea a woman who used her access to media to put out an op ed defending zoe quinn which was written to give off an impression that it was from an objective perspective when in fact she was directly connected to that person.
As lisby explains she should have known better. No excuses, her claims of footnotes or the guardians mistakes justify her deceptive intent.
Greg Lisby Interview journalistic ethics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-7RLxrsJ04
Anyways she's not a victim, she like the rest of the professional victim brigade made out quite handsomely thanks to patreon, a couple thousand a month from that alone.
When they use outlets like MSNBC even just within the last week to spout blatant lies
The Lie Heard Around the World #GamerGate #NotYourShield
Sargon of Akkad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaAJBKmi5I
When the real voices of people behind gamergate are just not heard.
A Conversation with #GamerGate and #NotYourShield
Sargon of Akkad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzW9EkyP1c4
Oliver Campbell stream #gamergate Threedog's news radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8SG7QuxqD4
There simply is no equivalence.
"But GamerGate is a speed bump for the video game industry"
That's just more of that black propaganda. They tried with the stop gamergate to kill momentum, it failed miserably, now this.
The ugliness in the industry is just incredible
http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructoid-corruption-and-ruined-careers/
Again, one side, gamers numbering in the hundreds of millions. The other side, a small clique of connected hipster sjw "professionals" with access to power and influence and still behave like spoiled children.
Internet aristocrat just did it, you can't support that sort of comment at all. GG and the media deserve to be enemies. You are horrible horrible people and some people just want to burn the world down. I really do get irritated that people can't control their little anger person inside enough to actually make a decent argued response however ridiculous and hateful the comment coming there way might be. That sort of comment isn't funny, its just insulting and rude and he should be ashamed of himself, as should anyone else that decides that is the right way to go about doing things.
The media is corrupt, but gamersgate is also a hate movement, not an activism movement. Internet aristocrat was one of the people who as leading this thing and when he says stuff like that....the journalists are just proved right. Doesn't stop them being corrupt we have seen countless articles over the years on the money and bribes (tablets etc) they take for games coverage but banding with this set of hateful people is not the right thing to do either.
Internet aristocrat did what? He took a hypocritical statement and made fun of it. If you've listened to any of his streams or videos he's a sarcastic man. Jezebel's news editor made that statement when they would be appalled if something similar were fired at them, that feminists are angry and ugly fat women for instance. Since feminism is the core of their site, it only makes their lack of self awareness all the more galling. So its perfectly legitimate to poke fun at such a revealing slip up by such people.
Again your statement that gamergate is a hate movement is simply unsupportable and is at the crux of the problem where people are constantly confusing disagreeing with a woman for misogyny. Disagree with Anita Sarkeesian? Oh you hate women.... Its at the core of the mentality on their side and we're just tired of it.