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Jay Allen

@a-man-in-black / a-man-in-black.tumblr.com

I am almost certainly too old for this shit.

First they said that they’re not gonna censor. That’s silly, and you’re being delusional. Now they’re having frank and open discussions on what’s okay to censor. I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and say that what’s okay to censor, are things that hurt their delicate fee-fees.

You COULD just ask me.

The second conversation is about hardcore porn (and snuff porn!). I think it's dishonest to try and get into contortions to say censoring porn, death threats, etc. somehow isn't REALLY censorship. Instead of saying "that's not REALLY speech," we should be asking what it's okay to censor.

So a_man_in_black is a former Wikipedia admin who lost their privleges for breaking multiple rules...

Suddenly it makes sense why this person would spend months of their life combing the internet for irrelevant #GamerGate posts.

It still doesn’t make it any less pathetic.

GamerGate typed "A Man In Black" into Google, saw this Wikipedia editor and said, "Yeah, seems legit." Apparently they're going to accuse me of being Johnny Cash next.

How did these idiots do so much damage?

GamerGate is a hideous, legitimized manifestation of the mobs which have been targeting women in the video game tech wor…
GamerGate is a hideous, legitimized manifestation of the mobs which have been targeting women in the video game tech world for years now.

A few people know I was working on an article about #gamergate. I was hoping to get it properly published. That didn't happen. Such is life! I'm not a proper journalist, and my contacts were all friends of friends (of friends), and their publications all had their own GG stories.

I went ahead and put it on Medium. I hope you enjoy it (or at least angrily reblog it to complain about me and the media narrative or whatever).

Indie Devs: beware William Usher

I don't know if any of the indie devs I know read this, but I might as well repeat:

William Usher is the dude who leaked GameJournoPros, and is looking for more dirt on indie games people. He claims to be a "journalist" or a "concerned citizen," but he's not your friend and not on your side, and will burn people freely to make a story. He's radioactive. Avoid avoid avoid.

It's never a good idea to engage someone with a Rorschach avatar, but he has also been spotted trying to make contact with people elsewhere. I don't fully know what his deal is right now but I saw two people say he was trying to get a hold of them and he is BAD NEWS

YouTube and Patreon have allowed harassers to turn their abuse into a paid profession. Several of the main instigators of #gamergate are profiting off of the misery they’ve caused.

"Uncovering media corruption is harassment against women."

SJW logic.

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azureleon

wow, is it abuse to criticize “academic work” and ask for better research methods? Is it abuse if someone insults someone and gets backlash for it? It isn’t abusive to exploit tragedies to promote yourself? Fuck this “logic”

It's abuse to accuse someone of sleeping with people to improve her career with no evidence, and it's abuse to sic a mob on someone while telling them that she deserves verbal abuse.

And yes, it is abuse to exploit tragedies to promote yourself. For example, thunderf00t and MundaneMatt and Owen/Aurini and many others hitching their wagons to the #gamergate abuse/harassment/defamation train.

Thanks for promoting my work!

Introductions

Hi. I'm @a_man_in_black on twitter. I'm just some rando who doesn't like GamerGate very much. I mostly post there, but I wanted to keep an eye on this "Operation Firefly" nonsense.

I've done some writing about GG, mostly in the form of storifies from my twitter account. I'll be reposting some of the best-received ones here.