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Here are the Tweets sent to Wu last night from a now suspended Twitter account. I will say that if you don't like swearing or disturbing descriptions of violence, you shouldn't read this.
Wu stated on Twitter that they have contacted the police as a result of these threats. She continued on to say that she and her husband are going "somewhere safe" for the night.
Wu also mentioned that last night's harassment began because GamerGate supporters posted her personal information over 8chan. Why? Because she Tweeted some amusing meme images about GamerGate and the type of people the group attracts. For an example of the fairly innocent images she Tweeted, see the top image of this post.
GamerGate supporters on 8chan then decided to take over the meme by creating a ton of spam images on Meme Generator. As time went on the images ended up being rather disturbing as 8chan and GamerGate worked tirelessly to destroy what was essentially an innocent meme. Some of the images, seen below, even targeted Wu directly.
The posting of Wu's private information came shortly after when GamerGate grew tired of her complaining about the idiotic stunts they were pulling with regards to the meme. Shortly after came the death threats and harassment.
Wu is the latest woman driven out of her home as a result of threats and harassment from GamerGate supporters. In the past few months, both Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn were also driven out of their homes due to GamerGate. They were (and continue to be) the victims of harassment and threats made online. They, like Wu, also had their private information posted online.
A few hours ago, Wu mentioned that this harassment will not dissuade her from making games.
However, the latest from Wu mentions how people are now trying to illegally obtain Giant Spacekate's financial accounts.
Remember that the only thing Wu is guilty of here is being a woman, being in the game industry, and being against the hate, harassment, and vitriol that GamerGate stands for.
As a nice reminder to GamerGate supporters: While you personally may not be one of the people doing the harassing, you are as much a part of the problem as those who are directly doing the harassing. By defending the actions of other GamerGate supporters, or by saying nothing at all, or by getting upset at being "attacked" and not upset that vile actions like this are taking place, you are just as bad (if not worse) as those directly carrying out these attacks of hate.
There are many GamerGate people that are all for equality and integrity but they're associating themselves with a toxic movement. They don't want to accept that, so they then defend it, which in turn adds to the harassment. It's just a huge mess. And like I mentioned at the end of the OP, if I really stood for equality and integrity then there is no way I would ever want to be associated with such a vile and toxic group that has literally done nothing that they claim to stand for.
EDIT:
John Walker from RPS put up a new blog on his personal site about #GamerGate:
Here's just a small excerpt:
Second, is that they have not disassociated themselves sufficiently from the lunatics that give death threats. There's no clear and divisible "that's not us" kind of line drawn in the sand. The lunatics use the hash tag, the people with good intentions use the same hash tag. No division.
So yes, the good are going to get lumped in with the bad that way. The good just need to stop using the tag and come up with some other tag and a clearly defined set of goals. Leave 'gamergate' to the lunatics and let it earn a negative stigma already instead of fighting in support of any decency you meant it to have. That died a long time ago.
Some lunatics took a good idea and broke it. It's dead. Let it go. Move on. Stop trying to defend it.
And that's playing devil's advocate that there's anything good at all, but obviously some people think there is, so, eh, whatever.
I'm really about ready for the whole mess to be over, it's just so stupid I hate hearing about it. But that doesn't stop people from getting death threats.
The only thing I can think of that's going to stop this is criminal charges when the line is crossed that severely, and negative social stigma. Anything less and it's just going to continue because people will get away with whatever other people let them get away with.