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FBI's 'Gamergate' file says prosecutors declined to charge men believed to have sent death threats — even when they confessed on video
The FBI file makes depressing reading for critics of Gamergate. It is heavily redacted, so we don’t know why prosecutors did not pursue any of the cases.
Yes, it is indeed depressing knowing that you can’t get the people you don’t like and who say things to you don’t appreciate to get sucked into the whirling maw of the American penal system. We should certainly fix that bug!
Twitter, Google, and Microsoft all cooperated in the investigation, and subpoena warrants were served by a grand jury. This was taken seriously by the FBI, even if nothing ultimately came of it.
Good to hear that the private sector surveillance apparatus is doing their part on the war on meanies.
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Can we…not…rehash Gamergate shit here? Like, that’s the very definition of nontechnical content that everybody has strong opinions about and which nobody will convince anybody else of anything about. Both sides are still claiming victory (because if you repeat a lie often enough on the internet, you become the winner), both sides engage in shitty harassment, both sides have questionable ideologies, etc.
It’s a tire fire. Stop adding tires, and don’t start one here.
EDIT: And flagged troll, by some coward. You do realize that every time you abuse the troll flag it loses its effectiveness right? Users who might otherwise be like “hm, maybe that post was over the line, lemme reconsider” eventually just go “meh well looks like somebody disagreed with me whatever”. If you overuse words, they lose meaning. Have you learned nothing in the last year?
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Dude. Don’t play that “both sides are just the same” equivocation bullshit here. The “oh the prison-industrial complex is so awful, anyone who tries to use it to stop people making endless death threats is clearly the bad guy” look isn’t a good one either. (I note in passing that the “appeal to consequences” is in the big list of argumentative fallacies on Wikipedia.)
What happened to these particular women was wrong. Full stop. You can make all the arguments you like about other individuals (and I have seen testimony I personally believe that some pro-GG individuals were on the receiving end of some pretty nasty harassment) but none of that will change that basic fact. Either own it, or accept that you’ll get labelled as a troll & a bigot, because if you minimise what happened to these people then that’s what you are.
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I at no time have said that what happened to the victims on either side was anything but wrong.
I’ve pointed out at some modest length that both sides have done things I find reprehensible (as well as some things I think are admirable), and that neither side should be taking up space on a forum for discussing the practice of technology.
I’m sorry I’m not blindly advocating in support of your preferred…whatever it is you believe. Go punch some Nazis and feel better, I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Umm. The tags on this post are “culture” and “law”.
Very clearly this article is at the intersection of “culture” and “law” with “technology”.
Hit “Filters” at the top of the page, tick “culture” and “law” click and save….. and none of your space will be occupied, and your sock will remain un-angered by the passing debates on the subject.
Admittedly that forum mechanism is a little crude in that I believe it would filter (“culture” || “law”), and not (“culture” && “law”).
But anyway, “law” is one of those things that tends to tick along unnoticed until it makes you angry.
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The people who claim those movements as their own are definitely responsible for immense amounts of narrow-mindedness, bullying, prejudice, and indeed inability to see people who disagree with them on the smallest point as human. It’s the common disease of any -ism, and they’re no less prone to it than any other.
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Are you saying social justice and feminism are a “questionable ideology”?
At the risk of being motte-and-bailey’d, I’m going to say that, yes, what many people in 2017 self-refer to as “social justice” and “feminism” are extremely questionable, and in fact are actually antithetical to their purported goals of fairness and equality.
To preempt any comments to the effect of “Those are just the extremists; most feminist/social justice activists actually only believe <reasonable thing>”; you are incorrect. I am a student at a liberal university in a liberal town, so I interact with these people every day. I get to see them “in the bailey”, so to speak.
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Do not make extreme claims without writing politely and sourcing yourself…you hurt your cause.
EDIT: fixed incorrect character terminating sentence.
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I was going to give long list of sources… Then I remembered it will only be downvoted so no one can see it. And it’s not going to go through anyones indoctrination anyway. So I am not gaoing to waste more than 10 minutes on this. Learn to research things yourself. And if you want more MAINSTREAM FEMINIST GOLD just go read jezebel or watch lacy green.
If you are going to read anything - read this:
“listen and believe when it’s good for us”
Also briana vu forgot to logout while trolling herself on steam. Yes, I will say it - all of gamergate “threats” are third party trolls or them thretening themselves for victim points and free ticket to UN panel.
Feminism and male DV shelters:
Erin Pizzey - read up on her attempt to open dv shelter for men.
Whole “it’s ok to show man being beaten by woman on tv” trope. Feminists are wery fine with it and even defencive when someone challenges it. Just speak with feminist. examples - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9AB8387A4AB3EEC5
fgm is bad but mgm is ok
Go to nerest feminist and ask them why they are not against mgm since fgm is nearly extinct. Get called mra/sexist/etc.
Or just ask feminists about it on some feminist redit.
“misrepresenting studies like wage gap” Economics 101 http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/harvard-prof.-takes-down-gender-wage-gap-myth/article/2580405
“prefential treatment in only good things”
If you need sources for this then you are indoctinated completely. No hope.
http://jezebel.com/report-to-reduce-domestic-violence-give-women-free-la-1719244314
women get lower sentences for same crimes : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/men-women-prison-sentence-length-gender-gap_n_1874742.html and feminists still want all female prisons to be closed: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/01/why-we-should-close-womens-prisons-and-treat-their-crimes-more-fairly equality.
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The DailyMail is not a trustworthy source. On anything.
The rest of your Gish Gallop requires a deeper responses, which is the point of the GG of course - to spam your opponents with factoids that each require a deeper conversation to unpick and then claim victory when they are unable to refute every single one of your points.
I would like to make one general point though: why is it the responsibility in your view that feminists have to campaign on those issues that affect men? Why can’t the men’s rights activists campaign on these issues that matter to them? After all, that’s exactly what feminists have done for decades: campaigned about those issues that they believed negatively affected women’s lives. Instead, every time I hear about the things that are wrong from a men’s rights activists it all seems to include some part about how women have done all these terrible things and should be righting all these wrongs for them. It’s childish & lazy: If you want to fix something, you have to actually do something about it: engage politically, make the argument, convince the wider society that change is necessary. All that hard, difficult, activist stuff.
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These are not extreme claims. These are things acepted by mainstream feminists. Some of them don’t even need to be sourced (ever heard feminist screaming for gender quota on oil rigs?). For the hell of it I will drop bunch of sources once I am not on mobile (just to see even more downwotes from sjws).
And that post was not inpolite. Unless knowing that sjws will downwote is offensive to non psychic people.
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Threading the needle very finely here, so please don’t jump to conclusions: are you saying that supportings of honesty in games journalism (hah) and protection of established culture (hah hah) are “questionable ideologies”?
Of course not! However, one will invariably then point to the acts of harassment and vile speech used to silence others. And then somebody on the other side can point out the counterdoxxing, social media hate mobbing, organized blacklists (GGautoblocker, etc.) and cultural erasure being done too.
Unfortunately we can’t judge both sides by their best actors, and both sides' ideologies clearly support actors doing shitty things when it suits their cause despite having some reasonable or even positive ideas in other areas. We don’t get to cherrypick, and that’s why I call both questionable.
(And to answer your original query, since both tents of social justice and feminism are quite large, including calls to do things like eradicate the male sex, yes, I find them questionable. I similarly find most forms of chauvinism, capitalism, communism, socialism, and most other -isms suspect. Such is the lot of the skeptic.)
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We don’t get to cherrypick
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including calls to do things like eradicate the male sex
You don’t consider picking a piece of satire authored in 1967 cherry-picking?
“The Manifesto is widely regarded as satirical, but based on legitimate philosophical and social concerns” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUM_Manifesto
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You’re selectively quoting that source, because of course it’s helpful to distance the movement from the crazies. We can snipe sources and quotes back and forth, but dismissing that document as merely “satire” is revisionist history: at the very least, given the fact that the author shot Andy Warhol because she felt he had too much control over her, it’s unlikely. Satirists typically don’t shoot people.
You don’t consider picking a piece of satire authored in 1967 cherry-picking?
I’d be happy to link to a lot of the good stuff done by feminists and socjus folks, but people somehow never have trouble remembering that.
More generally, it’s marvelously convenient to say “oh no, that was all just satire/a lone actor/a fringe element” and then act offended when the other side does the same thing when questioned about their extremists.
That’s what I mean by not cherrypicking–you don’t get to pick the subset of the ideological practitioners that support things in an agreeable way. We condemn the folks who raised money to stop bullying and have valid concerns about losing a safe space because some of them also made bomb threats.
Why shouldn’t we have the same concern about the side that, while it supports good work on diversity and inclusiveness and social justice stuff also engages in the same shitty terrible behavior they complain about?
I’m not for either side. I support neither organized bullying, nor lying, nor mob justice. I don’t have to be a fascist buzzcut evil MRA goon to see that there is a lot of making fun of awkward nerds by belittling their choice of cultural touchstones. I don’t have to be a trans rainbow-haired SJW ally to see that there is a lot of truly vile harassment and just awful, awful stuff being written by people that should probably just shut up and go back to enjoying their vidya.
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Yes, it is indeed depressing knowing that you can’t get the people you don’t like and who say things to you don’t appreciate to get sucked into the whirling maw of the American penal system. We should certainly fix that bug!
If you don’t like that it’s a crime to make death threats write to your congressmen. Until then it’s reasonable and yes correct to expect that a good and sane law like this be upheld. It might be a surprise to you but people get murdered every year, many of them after threats!
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If you don’t want politics then filter the culture tag.
extreme intolerance of opposing opinions
The debate about racism, sexism, etc–where everyone could come into a discussion with an open mind and without strong opinions–was a long time ago. This is war. Nobody on either side cares about tolerating the other side and honestly why should they. Casualities of war include getting downvoted (here), getting doxxed, getting fired (Eich), getting physically assaulted (Richard Spencer), or even getting shot (anti-Milo protester at UW). If you don’t care enough to suffer the consequences, then just don’t engage.
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Beware that when we add a tag for something, we’re saying “hey, we want more of this content here”.
Given the flamebait nature of politics, it may be worth it to not normalize such behavior.
Alternately, maybe it’s worth a containment tag with heavy penalties. Remember, most users probably don’t filter.
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Nobody on either side cares about tolerating the other side and honestly why should they.
Clearly some do, unfortunately–especially people who are on neither of the major sides of whatever.
then just don’t engage.
If a bunch of jerks show up in my favorite bar and start yelling at each other about politics, I’m going to want them thrown out. I feel the same way about our community here–there is no reason to assume that we have to tolerate this kind of nonsense.
We don’t have to sit and be collateral damage in the culture war. We can try to be Switzerland.
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culturetag need not talk about politics. Things as simple as “how do we treat our fellow developers during project post-mortems”, “how should we promote our workplace mores”, “let’s reflect on what culture we seem to exude”, and so forth can all be talked about productively without falling into the sturm und drang of the times.-
To paraphrase a quote mis-attributed to Trotsky: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.”
Politics is people negotiating how to define the rules by which a society governs itself without resorting to violence. You can no more escape it than you can escape people. Moaning about that fact doesn’t actually achieve anything. (Trotsky was quite happy to resort to violence which didn’t turn out well for anyone, including him in the end…)
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Your post seems to be exclusively about lobste.rs, while the part of my post you quoted was about the tech industry as a whole. Whether or not this specific community disallows political posts doesn’t change that this is a war, and that people not invested in the conflict should steer clear. For the record, I personally like the tech-related political content here.
We don’t have to sit and be collateral damage in the culture war. We can try to be Switzerland.
This side isn’t very popular here, or on any other forum. Whenever something with even the slightest hint of political content hits the front page, you make a post that gets downvoted, and a post rebuking you that gets highly upvoted. I’m not going to make an exhaustive list, but there’s an example in this thread, and here’s another recent example.
Feel free to ignore my advice. Continue to waste your time making posts whining about the hostility of the industry, while the rest of the world leaves you behind. People, in general, care about politics.
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People, in general, care about politics.
People, in general, care about sex–and yet we’ve somehow mostly restrained ourselves from posting pornography on the front page. :|
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I’m just saying how it is. You and everyone else disengaged from politics posting this “why can’t we all get along” shit don’t seem to understand that politics is war. People aren’t going to stop caring intensely about social issues so you might as well adapt.
I do care enough to suffer the consequences; that doesn’t mean the consequences should be my livelihood and passion!
So, in other words, you don’t care enough to suffer the consequences.
I think we absolutely can come together in discussion with an open mind, if we persist.
This isn’t going to happen because you don’t share the same goals. I can’t speak for the right, but people on the left do not want a “workforce with diverse perspectives” where “diverse perspectives” includes, say, racism. The left wants to utterly crush racism. If you care enough to fight the left on this then you will have to join the war.
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There is a war, but the sides aren’t what you think they are. The good news is that you’re winning it, handily. The bad news is that the losing side consists of those people who are capable of conceptualizing people who disagree with them as actual human beings who don’t inherently deserve suffering despite their flaws.
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The submission was GG stuff. My post was an appeal to avoid what will doubtless end as another tiresome dragon.
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Your post caused this, which is likely why you were marked troll.
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I’d amassed several troll downvotes before a single reply happened, as a matter of fact.
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Maybe I’m too cynical, but something about this doesn’t add up.
First of all, the accusations are so vague there’s no way anybody can refute them. I don’t know if this person even exists, and there’s no way to find out. The FSF can’t say anything because it would be a privacy violation for them to publicly discuss the person’s employment. Bringing it up this way makes it look like the FSF is being railroaded.
Second, it would be completely contrary to the FSF’s philosophy to discriminate in that way. That doesn’t mean it’s not true, but there’s 30 years of reputation against a vague accusation from somebody who (apparently) has an axe to grind against the FSF.
Third, it’s incredibly unfair to paint everybody on all of the GNU and FSF teams with the same brush. Even if one or two individuals are homophobic or whatever, there are hundreds of other people on those projects who aren’t and have nothing at all to do with it.
Finally, if it’s true, it should be in court, not on a mailing list. Airing it on the internet will make it worse for everybody involved. The trans person in question (assuming they really exist) is as good as outed once this gets all over the internet.
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Third, it’s incredibly unfair to paint everybody on all of the GNU and FSF teams with the same brush. Even if one or two individuals are homophobic or whatever, there are hundreds of other people on those projects who aren’t and have nothing at all to do with it.
I want to address this, because this is common objection. Strictly speaking, only FSF is being accused, and GNU is being criticized by association. We know the exact number of FSF staffs: it’s 11, not hundreds. If one FSF staff is homophobic, that translates to ~10% of FSF. At that point, it is reasonable to suspect even if only one staff is homophobic, more staffs are accepting of homophobic viewpoint.
So “hundreds of other people” in this context can only mean GNU. While FSF’s stated philosophy is anti-discrimination, I never got the impression this applies to wide GNU projects. It is well known many GNU projects members are decidedly not politically correct and proudly so. This is not surprising, since about the only thing they have in common is that they support software freedom.
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We know the exact number of FSF staffs: it’s 11, not hundreds. If one FSF staff is homophobic, that translates to ~10% of FSF. At that point, it is reasonable to suspect even if only one staff is homophobic, more staffs are accepting of homophobic viewpoint.
That is quite a leap. Homophobia is not a contagious disease.
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Not at all a leap. If you go to work daily with an openly homophobic person, you are implicitly accepting their behaviour as acceptable.
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This isn’t just “annoying”, it’s completely unacceptable. As a university student my “active hours” are highly variable, and an unexpected reboot could mean throwing away half a paper or corrupting a running VM. Either way, I’d have to spend that much time setting up my workspace again.
This could mean losing hours of work and damaging my grade because Windows wouldn’t let me print or upload an assignment for the deadline.
This guide has allowed me to leave Windows Update enabled with its auto-reboot functionality disabled, so I can choose to reboot when I know I have the time. I think this is the way it should work.
There’s a joke that’s probably older than you are, but it contains a useful lesson.
http://hajokes.com/view/Jesus-saves
Ha. I do compulsively mash Ctrl+S or
:wwhenever I’m working on something, but still, the OS unilaterally deciding to toss my state just shouldn’t be a thing. And “saved” doesn’t always mean “safe”, for example, if VMware is in the middle of background writes to a virtual disk image. Random reboots put long-running tasks at risk, too, like running a test suite or neural network training overnight.No offense but what is keeping you on Windows?
Adobe haven’t released InDesign for OpenBSD yet.
But they have released it for macOS.
Yes. MacOS X is a nice middle ground for people who want commercial support and want a UNIX shell underneath (I know about the new Bash thing - it’s got a long way to go :)
Compatibility with third-party software. I do most of my development in a Linux VM, but some things just require Windows unfortunately.
Not the OP, but I’m stuck with having Windows around for
And this list is by no means comprehensive, it’s just what comes to mind right now. I’ll also mention that I regularly use machines with Linux and MacOS, and often run VMs on each of them as I find it convenient to do work on one machine versus the others. I had completely cut everything but Linux out of my life for a couple years, but since then I’ve found that using all the systems insulates me from the annoyances of any single OS.
Steam and games. Visual Studio is good too, but I could live without it.
There’s an even worse version: you’re about to take a plane, so you turn off your computer and suddenly “installing update 1 of 2435, please do not turn off your computer”. But then you say I deserved this for using Windows.
Fun story about ‘active hours’. It claims to not restart if you are using system at the time. Guess if copy process (5tb of backups to new hdd) counts as ‘using system’… Last time I have ‘checked’ it did not.
Download but do not install and when done, confirm their installation. You are obviously a power user who knows that updates are good and you are definitely not scared of clicking the Install button like 80% of common users.
For those, do not care. They won’t be running VMs and it teaches them to save their work.