Here’s a rough translation I (@TNGZeke) did of a Japanese #GamerGate article (http://goo.gl/e94bdH):



Currently people are gathering on the #GamerGate hashtag on Twitter to engage in heated discussion over concerns with the gaming industry and games media.



Recently an abnormal amount of issues have arisen in the American games industry. In August, a man who claimed to be a former lover of independent game developer Zoe Quinn made public groundless allegations that Quinn had engaged in sexual relations with a Kotaku writer, in an attempt to devalue her game. Despite the fact that Kotaku stated that in fact these allegations were not true upon further examination, a portion of users attempted to hijack her SNS accounts, homepage, doxx her (releasing personal information such as home address, phone number, to the public), and preform other malicious attacks. This has become a big problem.



Furthermore, the female games critic Anita Sarkeesian, who analyzes the representation of women in video games in her videoblog series, arguing for the necessity of diversification and representation of women in video games was forced to take refuge after receiving death threats and having her personal information released on the internet by these same people.



In addition to all these incidents, the president of Sony Online Entertainment (which was DDOSed by a PSN attack) received a bomb threat while boarding an airplane. This was viewed as a very serious incident by the International Game Developer Association which stated that this will not be tolerated. On September 4th they started working with the FBI to work out a plan to take care of this malicious conduct.



And, on September 1st game developer Andreas Zecher stated that "regardless of gender, aim, race, religion, handicap, everyone has a right to play games, everyone has a right to criticize games, games cannot be threatened, we should allow people to surprise the industry.” She stated this after witnessing hate speech and harassment surrounding these incidents on the internet. This sentiment had a large influence, and collected 2495 signatures for a petition. The petition included the full name signatures of employees from Nintendo Europe, Microsoft, and many other big game developers.



The #GamerGate hashtag where this all originated from started around the end of August on the net bulletin board 4chan where users discussed the new information.This hashtag is transmitted through Twitter where currently vigorous argument continues. The people arguing are mostly people who love games, but they want to improve the morals of the video game community, not just spewing words, but their intent is to make constructive argument.



Because of the rising popularity and size of the video game market scale, with industries such as e-Sports, the discussion of diversity and raising the morals of the games industry must be had. Furthermore, Adam Baldwin, the hollywood actor famous for films such as “Full Metal Jacket” has decided to support this same hashtag.



Contrapositive:



"I'm opposed to 'equality' and 'social justice'."



"You're opposed to equal justice under the law and justice."



#GamerGate



Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) 2014, 9月 4



The argument on #Gamergate has just begun, and it appears as though it will not be a simple journey, however because we are propped up by the conscious that everyone loves games we may see new developments in the world. To raise the morals of the video games industry, and for further development of the games industry, it appears it may be necessary to rethink our conduct and the media.

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