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Re:The Online Abuse Prevention Initiative on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:15AM (#9149377)
And strike 2. The "Gamergate harassment patrol" operates like the "firemen" from Farenheit 451. They actively seek out new twitter users to harass, particularly those who call them out for doing so.

By all means keep trying to hold up terrible people as examples of "the good ones" though. It's entertaining.

Re:The Online Abuse Prevention Initiative on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:10AM (#9149359)
It did block an IGDA chair! One who had deep connections to MRA sites, responded by tagging in #gamergate to get his friends to take up his fight against this "unfair" censorship, and shortly after this incident found himself to no longer be associated with the IGDA.

System working very very much as intended there!

The only /real/ false positives it's ever generated that I'm aware of are a handful of people closely following hate group leaders to report on them, all of whom easily passed through the whitelisting process, and support the blocker wholeheartedly.