The crazy death threat people are 4channers. They're not actual people concerned about video game journalism.
The real problem is people don't realize that Anyone can call themself a gamer gate activist, or a feminist, or anonymouse, or al quada.. They don't need to have any kind of affiliation or share any views. and this happens online more than in person due to only having a virtual presence.
One might suggest that a movement that refuses to police itself is deliberately courting such plausible deniability. [1] Or one might mention all of the people with documented links to both harassment and the hashtag.[2]
> They're not actual people concerned about video game journalism.
I agree with you! Pity that so many of them seem to keep saying that they are concerned with journalism, instead of just admitting what they are doing.
> One might suggest that a movement that refuses to police itself is deliberately courting such plausible deniability.
Perhaps you didn't hear about the time when someone created a new board on 8chan specifically to harass Brianna Wu, and the Leaders of Gamergate from the /gg/ board went and flooded the new board with nonsense until mods woke up and took care of the problem.
Or when they tracked twitter attacks on Anita Sarkeesian to a journalist in Brazil...
Seriously, the standards you are trying to hold GamerGate to are completely and utterly ridiculous.
The real problem is people don't realize that Anyone can call themself a gamer gate activist, or a feminist, or anonymouse, or al quada.. They don't need to have any kind of affiliation or share any views. and this happens online more than in person due to only having a virtual presence.