I‘m on a brief blog hiatus, but I wanted to direct your attention to idledillettante’s definitive account of how Eron Gjoni, Zoe Quinn’s vengeful ex-boyfriend, not only launched what became #GamerGate but has shaped and directed it both in public and behind the scenes. And it’s all carefully documented with screenshots of Gjoni’s own words online — on 4chan, on Reddit, on Twitter, and on his own blog, often in direct violation of the restraining order that’s supposed to prohibit him talking about Quinn online.
Here’s idledilletante’s summary of the whole sordid story:
1. Eron knowingly promoted his tell-all blog post about Quinn on 4chan, knowing it was likely to cause harassment.
2. Rather than try to quell the harassment (As he might have you believe), Gjoni actually basked in the attention, to try and stir up even more agita against his ex.
3. Once confronted with his actions, Eron tried to distance himself from #gamergate, and move his involvement of Quinn behind the scenes. Unfortunately we have evidence of this string-pulling.
4. Eron’s fight against his restraining order is merely a continuation of the harassment he was already engaging in. If he wins his legal battle he’s likely to post even more private info about Quinn as a reward for his backers.
5. Gjoni has essentially ruined his good name in pursuit of this revenge quest. He knows this, and it makes him bitter that his plans to sideline Quinn in her own industry have backfired so spectacularly.
6. Gjoni sexually harasses women critical of him; especially when caught in a lie or backed into a corner logically. I find this a telling clue about his real attitude about women, although Gjoni claims to be a feminist.
But I suggest you read the whole thing; the details are creepy and revealing indeed.
Isn’t Ira normally on the side of reality? Where the hell did that come from?
M, yes, and I’m totally puzzled too, like everyone else.
The whole game side of this is hardly relevant. Zoe Quinn was attacked because Eron Gijoni is an abusive, controlling piece of shit. Her job just happened to be a convenient tool.
The “truth” that Zoe Quinn is a flawed human being and/or had some part in their breakup, I guess, instead of the faultless fragile flower nobody living in reality ever said she was. Since the gator brigade’s particularly monochromatic brand of “logic” doesn’t allow for the possibility of those things being both true /and/ irrelevant, they take it upon themselves to dig more deeply in search of a truthier truth.
(That’s as far as I can get in gamergate logic before I have to stop and lie down.)
Both sides?
BOTH SIDES?
What the fuck are you on about with “both sides”, Ira Shantz-Kreutzkamp?
There’s no “both sides” here. There’s nothing “both sides” about this shit. This is an entitled, MRA douchebag harassing a woman, Zoe Quinn, and orchestrated a campaign of harassment against her. And then there’s us, trying our damndest to defend her and to shut this shit down.
Eron Gjoni is everything GamerGate is. It is ONLY a targeted harassment campaign, dedicated to destroying the lives of gamers who happen to be women. Zoe Quinn is chief among them. Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu are just two other named of the numerous women being targeted.
Men spoke out against GamerGate, too. But they didn’t get anywhere near the kind of shit women got.
Take your “both sides” shit and shove it.
@ Ira Shantz-Kreutzkamp:
But even if I assume that everything that Gjoni has said about Quinn is true, that doesn’t make his actions acceptable. Quinn could be an abuser herself, but that wouldn’t make it acceptable for Gjoni to orchestrate a campaign of abuse against her. Heck, Quinn could be the most terrible person on the planet and that still wouldn’t make the harassment that she’s received justified.
It’s not that we’re spitefully assuming that everything Gjoni says is untrue. It’s that Gjoni’s behavior is despicable regardless of whether or not he’s telling the truth.
@POM Ain’t that the truth.
FWLIW, while there is definitely no “both sides” to this conflagration, there are two separate, completely unrelated issues; harassment of women/minorities real problem with game journalism. The Gaters who came into this mess solely to address the latter don’t know about the former and believe it’s just part of the conspiracy of collusion. That can be seen in the incessant cry that “no harassment has ever been proven to have come from GamerGate.” They need to get as far away from this tag and the women like Quinn, Sarkeesian and Wu. If they could understand this and concentrate on the actual problems things would clear up.
But this won’t happen. It’s become a holey war for them. You’re either part of GamerGate or part of the conspiracy. Which is why I have previously made the comment that Gaters are like Truthers.
@GOBACK
Yeah, no. Nobody can engage with #GG in good faith for more than a couple of days without noticing that the GG leading lights have made the harassment of specific women their primary goal. Try again.
@GOBACK
their primary issues are 0% unrelated, come on
Well shit, that is probablly to be expected. After seeing just such careless wording used and mocked over and over agan I deserve that and more for being so thoughtless myself.
I don’t think there are actually two equal opposing factions, that’s a self-serving myth chucked around by GamrGate, and I’m a fool for even unthinkingly perpetuating it.
There wouldn’t happen to e some penance I might do to atone for this gaff, Mods?
@Ira
Honestly, I’d just like to know what the hell you meant.
Cat pics Ira, and plenty of em.
The “We have to look at both sides!” things seems to be a common fallacy in modern journalism. Sometimes things really are black and white and right vs. wrong. From all indications this is one of those times.
I really have little patience with anyone who really still thinks #GamerHate is really about the ethics. There is so much damn evidence at this point you have to be swimming in some pretty deep denial not to be aware of it.
It’s disturbing, even without the definitive guide, how some people will ignore the truth that the reasonable among us can inherently see. The lengths to which they will go to make the world fit their view is stupefying.
@Ira
Well, shit. In that case, and in all non-snarky sincerity this time, I’d like to know too.
What thebewilderness said, Ira!
I agree. We would like to know what it was you meant, and will not devour you alive like giant mutant shrews.
That’s because we’re not the baddies.
Okay then. I wasn’t going to say since I figured it was beside the point by now, but since you ask.
Essentially, that GamerGate does not care about truth. Their vanguard of useful idiots doesn’t care, their militia of harrassment goons doesn’t care, their most prominent members don’t care beyond if the truth makes for a nice cynical tidbit to toss their slavering disciples and further inflame them aginst imaginary enemies..
The rather smaller collection of people actively trying to debunk their claims, sort out their bullshit, and trying to get a clear picture of what happened and why, DO care about the truth.
For this reason alone they’re irreconcilable by now. There are people who don’t seem to grasp the fine point that Rogue being banned from Twitter was neither a violtion of his rights or a random injustice. It’s an act against their own. That’s all they care about, tribalism in the face of all reason and basic observation skills.
That’s what I meant.
Also, how to embed images? http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/fb/05/d8/fb05d885cb6ae994cc4a153c5d32218c.jpg ?
[img]http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/fb/05/d8/fb05d885cb6ae994cc4a153c5d32218c.jpg[/img] ?
Alternates?
Aw, neither.
You can’t just “not know” about the harassment part. One of their primary modes of communication is Twitter. It’s impossible to follow a hashtag while remaining insular.
I will toss in my tertiary endorsement for what thebewiderness said, Ira.
@Ira
That makes sense. Very bad wording, lol.
One does not embed images; images embed themselves. Just put the link onto a line by itself and – if Ceiling Cat is with you – it will embed itself.
Well that’s a blessing.
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/fb/05/d8/fb05d885cb6ae994cc4a153c5d32218c.jpg
Imgur links imbed. So do Twitter links. I don’t think all the image sharing sites do.
Speaking of twitter links:
https://twitter.com/Elverojaguar/status/541411791553986560
Also, I’m a bad cat mom because I accidentally locked Pan out of my apartment for about ten minutes. He slipped out while I came in, and I didn’t realize it until he was scratching at the door.
More for the road.
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http://www.tehcute.com/pics/201109/cat-sleeping-on-dog.jpg
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