Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life

by Zoe Quinn

We’ve come this far together, dear reader… now let me be the Virgil to your Dante as we descend through the various webrings of hell.

And all I thnk about is @infernalmotel

Generally speaking, the bigger the following someone has, the less interested a service is in banning them.

What they get wrong is precisely this false belief that online prejudice is easily compartmentalized or categorized into, say, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ableism when really it flows freely between these various bigotries.

As far as I know, no one has never apologized to Leigh.

He blamed me for the harassment.

Instead, multiple sources confirmed that Steam doesn’t have a department or even an employee that handles abuse or user safety.

Platforms do not treat users equally, either. I started to notice that if I escalated a report on behalf of a client who was black, less or no action would be taken than in the case of my white clients facing similar problems.

for example, anyone who thinks (incorrectly) that a hot dog is a sandwich can use their platforms to express this totally incorrect opinion in relative peace.

We can’t let “diversity” become a code word for “more white cis women” or “straight white men, but ones who, like, REALLY, REALLY care.”

The problem is that you fundamentally cannot shame someone who is proud of what they are doing.

The principles of covering and studying online abuse in journalism and academia are the same: center the victim, prioritize consent, and treat them as a partner instead of a subject or a spectacle.

When you think you’re the good guy, it’s easy to lose sight of the wrongs you’re committing.