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Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a journalist, so that's something that I take very seriously.
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For me, especially running for office, being on Twitter is a fundamental part of my job.
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For most of 2016 and 2017, I would say probably 90% of my Twitter feed was automated bots sending repetitive messages at me. Someone would basically pay bots to send me messages over and over and over again. It made Twitter nearly unusable.
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For any prosecutor, a decision to show leniency in sentencing must be weighed against multiple factors. Do they show remorse for their actions? Are they a threat to the public and law enforcement? Do they intend to contribute to society?
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I have an unfortunate history with Ethan Ralph. Like many women in the game industry, I've been doxed by him multiple times.
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Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity.
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With major films costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, Hollywood is an industry that tends to repeat patterns when they make money.
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Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.
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For a hate group originally focused on video games, anger over a comedy movie for starring women might seem ridiculous. But at its core, Gamergate is about a toxic male sense of ownership over geek culture.
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If you're fortunate enough not to know, Gamergate is the misogynist hate group of the video game world.
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My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it's a muscle that can do no more.
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Facebook, Apple, Tinder, Snapchat, and Google create our social realities - how we make friends, how we get jobs, and how mankind interacts. And the truth is, women don't truly have a seat at the table.
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I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.
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Ordinarily, I develop videogames with female characters that aren't girlfriends, bimbos and sidekicks.
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The BBC called me 'defiant' in a caption. I plan to frame and put it on my wall.
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It's sad when 'Grand Theft Auto' has more consequences for criminal behavior than real life.
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Prosecuting Gamergate is not about justice for me or the women of Giant Spacekat. It's about introducing consequences into the equation for men that treat harassing women like a game.
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Gamergate has grown into a hate group that threatens the stability of the $60 billion a year game industry.
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The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
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There's a common personality type to software developers - one I certainly fall into. We're more comfortable staring at a screen than staring into someone's eyes. Engineers can be brilliant in the workplace, and something less-than-brilliant everywhere else.
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There's a common misconception about running for office. People think it's dreadful, morally compromising work. But I've found the opposite is true. It made a better person and a better feminist. It forced me to take a hard look at my shortcomings.
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We need to introduce civil liability for companies that ship products with reckless security vulnerabilities.
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We need to invest in telecommunication infrastructure with redundancies to combat denial of service attacks.
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Crises like the Mirai botnet can't be prevented by vague calls to protect our cybernetworks or platitudes about working with private industry. We need to be able to force recalls on consumer devices with massive security vulnerabilities.
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It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard.
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In stopping Gamergate, the men who dominate it - not just women - must address the culture that created Gamergate.
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Gamergate is ostensibly about journalistic ethics. Supporters say they want to address conflicts of interest between the people that make games and the people that support them. In reality, Gamergate is a group of gamers that are willing to destroy the women who have invaded their clubhouse.
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The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.
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Since Gamergate, many women I know are reluctant to speak publicly on gender issues, because they fear - rightly - that they will be targeted and harassed.
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Gamergate should have been a time of reckoning for the gaming community, which had long been rife with sexism and misogyny. It wasn't.
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Gamergate gave birth to a new kind of celebrity troll, men who made money and built their careers by destroying women's reputations.
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I think Gamergate is just a symptom of a disease: a $90 billion global industry that was built by men for men.
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It's see no evil, hear no evil with toxic male gamers - whose every whim and adolescent fantasy has been catered to for decades.
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Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools. It wasn't that they were outwardly opposed to white and black people attending school together, it was that the rulings threatened their proud identity as independent Southerners.
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I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that's an industry leader in making games for women. We are passionate about creating narrative games for the avalanche of new consumers who don't fit the old gamer stereotype.
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I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.
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Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I've been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, 'Final Fantasy,' 'Dragon Warrior' and 'Super Mario' offered a lifeboat.
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