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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by aisengard on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:27AM (#19399979)
The "ethics in game journalism" was basically a weaselword for what they really wanted - women out of gaming. It's a lot like how "economic anxiety" elected Trump - it's a way to excuse people's inexcusable attitudes towards others.
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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by duxup on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:34AM (#19400039)
Yeah it grew very fast, and pivoted really fast to be a sort of identity thing.

What is strange is that even for a while on their main gathering forums ... they denied even the source of the moment being the post about Zoe Quinn. It was a very fluid movement from the start, hate, us vs them, and other identity moments allow for that.

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