Allum Bokhari at Breitbart:

Was Zoe Quinn GamerGate all along? Or, at least, its so-called “harassing” element — those who were accused of sending anonymous death threats and abuse to the feminist video games designer?

That’s the conclusion drawn by SpliceToday contributor Todd Seavey, after an extraordinary week in which Candace Owens, the founder of an anti-cyberbullying project, accused Quinn and her longtime feminist ally Randi Harper, of instigating a “cyber-terrorist” mob against her.

It should come as no surprise if Harper were involved with online hate-mobs. As Breitbart has highlighted in the past, the feminist web campaigner — who, amazingly, also claims to be an “anti-abuse” activist — has left a trail of victims in her wake around the web. Numerous individuals, ranging from data scientist Chris Von Csefalvay to tech mogul Vivek Wadhwa, have faced massive, coordinated attack campaigns from anonymous Internet users after tangling with Harper. In Csefalvay’s case, these extended to death and rape threats against both him and his wife.

Yet the involvement of Quinn, who has a (slightly) less notorious reputation than Harper, is interesting. For those who missed last year’s GamerGate controversy, Quinn is a feminist video games designer who claims to be one of the foremost victims of online abuse: the target of a year-long campaign of anonymous harassment that she claims “ruined her life.”

As a result of this alleged abuse — for which no-one has been arrested, and has never been traced back to a real person — Quinn has received thousands of dollars in donations from sympathetic users of the crowdfunding site Patreon. She also secured a book deal to write about her ordeal at the hands of anonymous internet meanies, and, despite remaining unpublished, Hollywood executives already want to adapt it into a movie — starring Scarlett Johansson.

Quinn was even invited to the United Nations to discuss her tribulations.

If that’s victimhood, I wonder what its opposite looks like.

Hmmmm. Todd Seavey’s column at SpliceToday:

One unfortunate thing about the battles between online feminists (such as Zoe Quinn) and online anti-feminists (such as the #GamerGate movement) is that explaining them always gets so complicated, in part due to the use of online aliases and fakery. The truth is unlikely to be followed by any normal, sane person who isn’t obsessed with the details.

So here’s the one-paragraph version of the latest (and it’s still longer than one might wish): It appears online feminist Zoe Quinn doesn’t just fake harassment against herself (as was long suspected) but, far more creepily, actively harasses other people. And not just any people but specifically those dedicated to exposing anonymous online harassers—most likely because that would expose Quinn and many of her cronies.

This is a stunning accusation, but not an unreasonable deduction from what happened to Candace Owen and Social Autopsy, evidently targeted by Quinn and Randi Harper for a smear campaign when it appeared that Social Autopsy might rival the Quinn/Harper project Crash Override. If what has been alleged in that incident is true, then Quinn and Harper are certainly willing to use online fakery to attack their enemies, and the possibility that much of the “harassment” attributed to #GamerGate was actually fake — perpetrated by anti-#GamerGate activists in a sort of digital Reichstag fire — is not really all that farfetched.

SJWs Always Lie, as someone has pointed out.

We shall monitor these developments . . .





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