The entire internet is full of this. Every comment section every forum its just absolute anywhere and everywhere someone can post text. Anyone who makes any statement on the internet will receive hate, the more famous you are the more you receive.
One Week of Harassment on Twitter
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#13Anonymous free speech can sure bring out some ugly things in people. Freedoms, though, often cut both ways, protecting important and significant behaviors but also sometimes allowing sad and pathetic ones. I think it would be delicious punishment if the author of each of those tweets were forced to read them out loud, in front of their mothers, sisters, wives, friends, bosses, coworkers, and children. If someone's wi…
There was a woman video game reviewer who messaged the mothers of boys who sent her hateful messages on Facebook, which was entertaining.
https://twitter.com/Charalanahzard/status/538144080534847489
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#14The entire internet is full of this. Every comment section every forum its just absolute anywhere and everywhere someone can post text. Anyone who makes any statement on the internet will receive hate, the more famous you are the more you receive.
What are you saying with your comment? That we should just accept this despicable hatred? That this is normal?
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#15It's illegal to make death threats offline. It should be online too.
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The fact that it's legal to say something, that it's uncensored, doesn't mean that it's right. Those are two different things.
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#17Scary to think that the venn diagram of young gamers and future programmers is pretty substantial. The ratio of men/women in college was pretty abysmal. This may not be the exact cause, but it certainly doesn't help the cause. Truly is a shame that so much talent is driven to other fields due to lack of basic social skills.
I honestly don't think that a lack of social skills is to blame. I'm not the most social creature and that sort of behaviour horrifies me.
I think it is more likely a lack of empathy, combined with the view that the internet is somehow not the "real world" and an entitlement complex of incomprehensible size.
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Despite protestations to the contrary, white men do not receive this level of abuse. In brief spurts maybe, especially if they dare to support someone like Anita, but sustained like this? No. So maybe, just maybe, there's a cultural problem to be discussed.
It's not that hard to get this kind of attention when one dedicates him/herself to being a professional victim.
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#19Scary to think that the venn diagram of young gamers and future programmers is pretty substantial. The ratio of men/women in college was pretty abysmal. This may not be the exact cause, but it certainly doesn't help the cause. Truly is a shame that so much talent is driven to other fields due to lack of basic social skills.
All you have to do is watch the HN comments on any thread that (even tangentially) mentions women. There's no shortage of of existing programmers / old gamers that are virulently hostile.
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#20I hate to be that guy, but when you see the twitter account, you only have some reports of tweets like this, that's not how the situation is going to be improved. I agree it's outrageous to see people like this, but their twitter account is effectively completely useless to promote their message, I have to scroll down ~100 tweet to have something useful about video games. Their twitter account is effectively doing some publicity to this kind of message by posting only this kind of content.