A petition to black out Steam for an hour

[Six Ways]

How is someone else sending her death threats more simple than her making the death threats? They'd both involve someone taking the same steps (make twitter account, post threats).

Considering the amount of death threats she is already known to have received, the probability of her receiving further death threats is virtually 1. That makes it the simpler answer statistically.

And in this case it would be that she found the death threats almost immediately after they were posted, logged out for no apparent reason then took the screenshot. Occam's Razor is about assumptions, so we'd have to assume she found them immediately, assume that she logged out because ... I don't know. If we go by 'she faked it' that explains both of those. It wouldn't rely on the luck of finding the posts within a time window.

When someone tweets at you, you get a notification. It's not hard to believe she'd see that quickly. It's also not hard to believe that it was in fact someone else doing the screencapping, for example someone quickly sent a link to the profile via chat. These are both at least as simple an explanation as "it's a conspiracy".

And Anita's been fading from obscurity before her this. I doubt she gets threats daily now.

I absolutely do not doubt that. She may have slipped from her peak notoriety, but once again - basically the most reviled woman on the internet.

 

[BeerTent]

I like how I go to the last page to check out some of the responses, and the first post I see is "She's clearly faking it, Rape/Death threats are like, whatever man. She should stay until someone knows where she lives."

Let me tell you about this thing called the internet. Seems that this is your first time here, @WhiteNachos .

If people can be swatted starting only from a twitch account, people can be tracked frok Kickstarter, Google and Twitter. People already know where she lives. I may not agree with everything in her videos, but to say things like death threats are nothing? Rape threats, pfft. Whatever? No. Just... Just go. Stay on Xbox Live Halo.

 

[barbzilla]

Holy shit, this is Lewis' Law all over the place. I am astounded at the proportion of people on here happily saying they think these death threats might have been faked.

Yeah how dare people question the validity of these threats that could've been faked. It's not like Anita has ever lied about anything before /s.

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Well, law of large numbers here: What is more common? People faking physical, psychological or verbal attacks and threats based on gender wanting attention? or people hiding behind anonymity to make claims and threats online that would put their asses into jail if done in person?

Yeah... not looking good for the conspiracy theorists.

That is an appeal to probability fallacy (I think).

Actually, its an appeal to Occam's Razor.

Which is still better than a reductio ad Hitlerum seen here.

Occam's Razor does not work that way. You can't just say "oh well more people get real death threats then ones they faked themself". U have to consider the arguments on this particular situation. Besides that logic would lead to "anyone who claims to be an eyewitness to a crime must be telling the truth since that's more common than eyewitnesses lying to protect themself" but that's actually happened though.

Occam's Razor states that the simplest solution is often the correct one. In this situation, the simplest solution is that Anita did receive the death threats, and decided to use them to fuel the controversy engine. So in this situation it does work that way.

How is someone else sending her death threats more simple than her making the death threats? They'd both involve someone taking the same steps (make twitter account, post threats). And you're simplifying what Occam's Razor is.

And in this case it would be that she found the death threats almost immediately after they were posted, logged out for no apparent reason then took the screenshot. Occam's Razor is about assumptions, so we'd have to assume she found them immediately, assume that she logged out because ... I don't know. If we go by 'she faked it' that explains both of those. It wouldn't rely on the luck of finding the posts within a time window.

It is far more common to receive death threats online than it is to fake them. Anita has received plentiful threats from which to choose, and as such it is likely she has received threats such as this on her twitter

I really doubt that. This sounds like a movie stalker rather than a real person. And Anita's been fading from obscurity before her this. I doubt she gets threats daily now.

since I know she received plenty of them on her kickstarter. In this situation, it would make more sense to watch and wait for a new one to crop up to use as fuel than it would to risk the flip controversy of faking one. This also explains the short time gap between the posting of the threat, and the screen capping of said threat (since she was waiting for one, it seems logical that she would jump on it when it appeared).

She would also have to wait for someone who knows her address. And if she was waiting for one that raises serious doubts about her "I was so scared I slept at my relative's house" story. Just saying.

No I am not simplifying it. I allow for the possibility that the more complex solution may be the correct one, but in the absence of certainty, the solution requiring fewer assumptions is most likely correct. Even if we just take one aspect of the situation, we know that she receives death threats (I never said she receives them daily, thus my indication she would have to wait for one) already, why complicate the situation by faking a threat when she could just simply wait for one? As for the address, it is not hard to find documentation for someone online. Hell, people do it all the time with nothing but a screen name, yet we know her actual name (though I will give you that that is a point in favor of her having done it herself concerning OR).

I explained all of my reasoning in the previous post, if you disagree with me, that is fine. However without certainty we have to go with the less complex solution, and forging her own death threats (no matter how strange they may be) is always going to be the more complex solution without base evidence one way or the other. Now, as I said before, she may well have faked her own death threats, I am not discounting that possibility; however until we have a piece of non-circumstantial evidence that points to it being faked, we must assume it is real (at least if you go by traditional means of assuming guilt in America).

 

[Cybylt]

I can't help but feel this petition misses the spirit of all of the Tropes vs Women videos. Also all the parts where Anita explicitly states, "this isn't about taking away games."

It's a bit like protesting gun violence by participating in a mad minute, don't you think?

 

[Zontar]

I can't help but feel this petition misses the spirit of all of the Tropes vs Women videos.

You have a point, I see no way Anita can make money off of this.

 

[Mid Boss]

The funny thing is statements like

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are pretty common and allowed to go unchallenged in SJW circles.

Here is a copy of what's being said in the reblogs of the post which is supposedly going around unchallenged. Took me all of two minutes to find the post and look at what people are saying about it. Which means you didn't even bother to fucking look. You just assumed. Proving that you're just as much of a reactionary dumb ass as the person who wrote that post!


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Jun 14th, 2014

metal-eluveitie reblogged this from lil-purrfect-femme and added:

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What the fuck kinda bullshit is this This Is just ridiculous!

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Guys. It?s not just men. As a womyn I play video games 25/8 so I don?t r*pe my little brother. You dumb fuck.

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I am a 21 year old man, and I can honestly say that I cannot remember ever having any sort of urge to rape anyone. I...

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Playing video games prevent rape. Spread the word.

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This is the shit. Not all men are rapist. People play video games because they are fun. Women also play video games....

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Can someone please get her some education?the stupidity level coming from her blog is incredible

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[tzimize]

For fucks sake.

Let's, for a minute, ignore the fact that people are asking for Valve, a company that has done absolutely nothing wrong, to shut down their business for an hour, for the fault of others.

Let's forget about that potential lawsuit Valve could have leveled at them for intentionally denying game access to their customers (Whether the lawsuit would be successful or not).

Let's gloss over how attempting to strong arm a company into emulating the SOPA outages is not the same as companies volunteering and working together towards a particular goal that is not only right for the public, but for their personal and financial benefit.

Lets just let that all go for a minute and ask one question:

Why does anyone think that because a few dumb, impotent internet hornets stung you, that setting fire to the hornet nest where millions of hornets that have no interest in coming after you live is a good idea?

This phrase may be terrible to say, but I think it applies: Why are you asking for it?

Look out people! We got actual logic here! Move along, try to ignore it as best you can! God knows we wouldnt want anyone to THINK about their actions....

On a more serious note: "sigh" and "why is this not obvious to everyone?"

 

[Naqel]

Blacking out Steam isn't going to make me angry at the people making the threats. The people asking for the black out will have pissed me off though.

Pretty sure annoying more people isn't the best way to go about things.

If anything, it would get people who make those threats(assuming they even exist), to act upon them, as a part of the escalation of conflict.

 

[Majinash]

Firstly, Compared to multiple countries across the world that still have laws limiting education, job opportunities, dress code, marriage rights, etc, the history of just about every country of widespread gender discrimination, and the fact that the number of women in political and financial power is still substantially lower than that of men. I certainly say men's rights issue do not compare.

Secondly, no one's forgetting anything, women's rights issues obviously far outweigh that of men's and as such take precedent.

Thirdly, I never said anything about intention, I have no idea where you got that from

Wait is this now a dick measuring contest of who has it worse?

In that case shouldn't we completely ignore the problems of all men and women in first world countries, and focus on all the people who have to go to sleep every night wondering if they'll be murdered in their sleep by some passing warlord, or die of Ebola, or just plain starve?

Seems pretty shitty to simply say "you guys will get your turn when we are done". Who is first in line? women? racial minorities? religious minorities? homosexuals? the poor? What order are we lining up in?

 

[TotalerKrieger]

Why should Steam specifically black out their service? What about Origin, Xbox Live, PS Network, etc, etc? A far more reasonable campaign would be to schedule an hour in which gamers collectively (and voluntarily) log out to consider the concerns being raised and the content being presented to them. A moment of pause and reflection if you will. As it is now, this campaign will be ignored entirely and rightly so.

 

[HavoK 09]

Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe somebody else has pointed this out, but wouldn't you still be able to play your games, if Steam did shutdown, in offline mode? My internet connection sometimes cuts out on me, and I can still play my Steam games, just not the ones that require a constant connection.

There are games which have a competitive scene and have matches every day and throughout most of the day. Besides I registered and paid for a service that is supposed to be ON all the time, sure I can take downtimes when servers fry but those shouldnt even exist to begin with.

Also ever heard of those "green hour" events? Its all voluntary, forcing everyone to join would end up screwing someone over. People do make a living with videogames, sure its a small percentage but I doesnt justify its fair, and saying that they can play other games doesnt always work when they are pros at some game.

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

Wait is this now a dick measuring contest of who has it worse?

In that case shouldn't we completely ignore the problems of all men and women in first world countries, and focus on all the people who have to go to sleep every night wondering if they'll be murdered in their sleep by some passing warlord, or die of Ebola, or just plain starve?

Seems pretty shitty to simply say "you guys will get your turn when we are done". Who is first in line? women? racial minorities? religious minorities? homosexuals? the poor? What order are we lining up in?

Responded to this argument already in the post following the one you quoted. Also, when did everyone decide that take precedent meant utterly ignore everything but this.

 

[Gokuofuin]

....again who cares about the raving of some strange lady?

 

[Proto Taco]

I'm getting really sick of 'laid back', 'egalitarian', 'live and let live kinda guys' sitting with their thumbs up their butts while basically everyone who isn't a white male, gets harassed, teased, bullied, and threatened. The 'it's only a game' excuse doesn't fly either, because games don't play themselves. People play games, real, flesh and blood, people, and when you threaten someone online you're not threatening a nebulous avatar or NPC, you're threatening a real person. When you tell someone online to go kill themselves, you are walking up to a stranger you've never met before and telling them to commit suicide. It is getting out of hand, the internet is turning an entire generation of people into spiteful sociopaths who apparently lack the ability to do more than entertain themselves.

This entire thread is an excellent case-and-point. Anita talks about women being mistreated in games, and what happens? Do people actually stop to consider that maybe women ARE mistreated in games? And maybe a better job could be done of both portraying and interacting with them in a digital environment? No, instead a chorus of moans erupt that she won't shut up and just leave 'gamers' to their passively, sometimes actively, misogynistic entertainment. Indeed many of these threads even blame Anita for inciting the death threats, because clearly if you talk about giving women a fair shake you're just asking to be threatened with a brutal beating, dismemberment and murder.

 

[Infernal Lawyer]

Oh, my god...

As has already been said, you can't compare blacking out Steam to the SOPA protests, because those black-outs weren't done for the mere sake of protest. The message was not "You can't use this service/website because someone is upset about something", the message was "This is an emulation of what will happen if you ignore this upcoming bill and let it be elected in".

While I feel sorry for Anita (at least as long as her story is what it claims to be at face value), there is a massive difference between proving a point, and punishing people for the crimes of the few. Blacking out Steam will only serve to piss off people for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Malpraxis]

If someone doesn't let me use a service I paid for, as noble as their intentions could be, I'm rallying against that cause.

I barely know who she is, couldn't care less about her plight, and so far her life isn't interfering with mine, so I don't mind. If they pull that kind of crap, I'll probably change my stance from neutral, to against her. I'm sure I'm not the only one in that position.

 

[Dango]

What? How...? That doesn't make any sense...

 

[sonofliber]

Can someone give me back the 15 minutes of my life i wasted reading this?
also
90% of the people here would make really crappy detectives.
until police notifications, YOU SHOULDN'T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS, thats how witch hunts start.
There are arguments for her faking threats, and for her not too, and unless you guys are a police man working on the case, you have no information besides what the media (who loves witch hunts) tell you, you dont have anita psychological profile, information from her surroundings, nor access to information company's can provide to help solve this

 

[Gorrath]

I'm getting really sick of 'laid back', 'egalitarian', 'live and let live kinda guys' sitting with their thumbs up their butts while basically everyone who isn't a white male, gets harassed, teased, bullied, and threatened. The 'it's only a game' excuse doesn't fly either, because games don't play themselves. People play games, real, flesh and blood, people, and when you threaten someone online you're not threatening a nebulous avatar or NPC, you're threatening a real person. When you tell someone online to go kill themselves, you are walking up to a stranger you've never met before and telling them to commit suicide. It is getting out of hand, the internet is turning an entire generation of people into spiteful sociopaths who apparently lack the ability to do more than entertain themselves.

This entire thread is an excellent case-and-point. Anita talks about women being mistreated in games, and what happens? Do people actually stop to consider that maybe women ARE mistreated in games? And maybe a better job could be done of both portraying and interacting with them in a digital environment? No, instead a chorus of moans erupt that she won't shut up and just leave 'gamers' to their passively, sometimes actively, misogynistic entertainment. Indeed many of these threads even blame Anita for inciting the death threats, because clearly if you talk about giving women a fair shake you're just asking to be threatened with a brutal beating, dismemberment and murder.

I'm myself rather sick of people pretending that if you're a white male, you are given some kind of special protection against being bullied, harassed, teased and threatened. The past few weeks have shown immense amounts of this type of shit being thrown by all sorts of people at all sorts of people. If you want people to join your side in a cause, then convince them that your cause is just. Running around and playing the, "If you're not with us, you're against us" (ie, you're a misogynistic piece of human garbage) does not win supporters, it makes people defensive and angry that you lumped them in with assholes. Defensive people don't tend to listen to anything else you have to say, and so you shoot your own goals in the foot.

I'm all for having much greater diversity in games. By most accounts, you and I would likely see eye to eye. But instead of us being able to agree on any rational point, I end up having to respond to a bunch of bile that uses broad brushes to paint people with stereotypes. Slinging accusations and indignant rage at 'egalitarians' because some of them don't think Anita's points are well made or who don't take personal responsibility for the actions of other people they have nothing to do with and no power over does nothing to address any issue with regard to character representation in games. Instead, it serves as soap-box grandstanding with a total lack of self awareness and makes any discussion about the actual topic almost impossible.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Oh god, please make this petition go through! If they black out Steam and openly say its because Anita and Zoe were bullied on Twitter, oh man...
The amount of hate and rage they'll get will make the whole Gamer Gate thing seem like a schoolyard brawl. It will backfire on them SO fast and hard. Really wish it'd go through