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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by Karunamon on Monday September 21, 2015 @11:46AM (#10253041)
The start of it, sure. This is all public record at this point.

Judging what exists now by what existed over a year ago is hardly fair. People who actually harass people are now loudly shouted down wherever they're seen doing it.

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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday September 21, 2015 @01:15PM (#10253671)
> People who actually harass people are now loudly shouted down wherever they're seen doing it.

This is frequently claimed but there's little evidence of it.

If you even dare to talk about gamergate publicly, you will be dogpiled. If you criticise them, you will receive rape and death threats.

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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by Karunamon on Monday September 21, 2015 @03:20PM (#10254529)
If by "dogpiled", you mean "having your public communication using a hashtag responded to in public by lots of people".

Volume of replies does not harassment make.

>If you criticise them, you will receive rape and death threats.

This is frequently claimed but there's little evidence of it.

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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by comrh on Monday September 21, 2015 @04:13PM (#10254842)
This whole thread is just a great example of this comic: http://wondermark.com/1k62/
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by 13thLetter on Monday September 21, 2015 @05:32PM (#10255279)
That comic, in turn, is just another efficient mechanism for evading criticism instead of answering it: as if the number of people making a criticism, whether large or small, has any connection to how valid the critique is. If someone was making racist remarks in a public venue and got a lot of angry pushback, would you dismiss that as "sealioning" too?
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by Karunamon on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @11:10AM (#10259061)
A fun exercise: Compare the definition of "sea lioning" with basic conflict resolution tactics. Then, try to explain how they're substantively different.
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by EdiX on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:20AM (#10264035) 

    :%s/sealion/black people/
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by icebraining on Monday September 21, 2015 @12:14PM (#10253229)
Frankly, and this is not specific to GG, but I don't get why would one join a movement if one disapproves of how it got started. If one doesn’t want to be associated with assholes, maybe one shouldn't associate themselves with asshole-created groups.
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by exstudent2 on Monday September 21, 2015 @01:18PM (#10253698)
A lot of people joined GG because there is/was no alternative for people who held views opposed to those in the mainstream. It's one of the only groups fighting for unmitigated free speech on the internet. It's made for some strange bedfellows but in the end it's an anti-censorship campaign (that happens to have identified the group pushing for censorship).
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by mintplant on Monday September 21, 2015 @01:35PM (#10253811)
From what I've seen, they only seem to be fighting for free speech that agrees with their perspective. See, for example, the campaigns to convince advertisers to pull their ads from sites that publish articles they don't like.
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by exstudent2 on Monday September 21, 2015 @01:45PM (#10253888)
The campaigns themselves are the free speech.

Free speech != profitable speech. The journalists can say whatever they want. If they want to make a profit doing it selling to an audience they're simultaneously beating up, they'll have to deal with the antagonistic relationship they created.

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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by mintplant on Monday September 21, 2015 @12:00PM (#10253129)
GamerGate was sharing photos of Zoe Quinn from her old modeling profile as recently as a month ago. This is a continuous problem.
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by Karunamon on Monday September 21, 2015 @12:04PM (#10253168)
Citation needed, and even if true, posting pictures of someone that they made public years ago is not "harassment".
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