Tweets bearing the hashtag “#NotYourShield” were ostensibly written by women, non-white people and other underrepresented groups within the gaming community who used their racial and gender identities to argue against charges of rampant sexism and racism in video games and the culture surrounding them. [68]

However, on September 6, Quinn posted a series of screenshots of incriminating 4chan posts and IRC chatlogs [69] that revealed that Gamergate was not a grassroots movement concerned with journalistic ethics, but a co-ordinated hate campaign against Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, and others viewed as “social justice warriors”, and that “#NotYourShield”[nb 3] was nothing more than an astroturfingtactic designed to hide this campaign’s true nature by using women and minorities as shields against criticism.[69] Gamergaters created sockpuppet Twitter accounts to push “#NotYourShield,” fabricating user profiles and swiping pictures from places like Cheezburger.com for use as user images.[70]







I’m sure the submitter wants to debate, so keep it civil folks!

I mean, it honestly can’t be that obvious of bait.

