GamerGate - History may not repeat, but it does rhyme...

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GABE ON WED, OCT 19 2005 AT 11:33 AM Yack 0 Tycho and I remain free men. The fact is that Jack actually sent the fax to everyone but the intended recipient at the Seattle PD. There were a lot of names to remember I don't blame him. I've received literally thousands of emails in the past couple days. They are all commending us for standing up to Jack the way we did. Most of them go on to ask what we can do as a community to stop him. I have to admit that is tempting. The more l think about it the more I think it might not be in our best interest. Let me explain GABE You can certainly mail the networks he appears on. You can even send letters to their advertisers. You can contact the senators he speaks with and demand they ignore him. If enough of us do that sort of thing and we do it long enough they will eventually get the message and drop him just like the National Institute on Media and the Family did. Would that be a good thing? I'm not sure Jack is not special. He is not a unique snow flake as they say. He is just the latest vocal opponent of whatever is "corrupting" our youth at the moment. When my dad was growing up it was rock and roll devil music. Then it was comic books then movies and rap music. loday it's videogames. If we were to succeed in getting Jack blacklisted from the major news outlets someone else would simply take his place. Imagine him as an actor playing a part in a play. The point is that Jack Thompson is not important. If he were to be fired a new actor would simply take up the role. The same lines would still be delivered in the same way and the same audience would pay to see it. We are actually fortunate that the current actor is so impotent in his role Imagine what might happen if some charming, efficacious attorney took his place. The more I consider it the more I think we may be lucky to have Jack playing the part of the alarmist. The alternative might be someone who is actually capable -Gabe out

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w+1 ftw

Sep 20, 2014 at 08:49PM EDT

You know shit has really hit the fan when you miss Jack Thompson.

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MushroomGuy

Sep 20, 2014 at 08:36PM EDT

To be clear: Jack never got anywhere because he appeared as an obvious clown to all actually involved in gaming (publishers, devs, journalist, and gamers).
The SJ crowd were able to infiltrate because they appeared to be reasonable, kind, moral individuals. (Really it's the same way people end up in abusive relationships.)

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