[Mr. Vega]

Not that I want to start this up again, but Anita Sarkeesian had to leave her home after someone threatened her and her family's life (giving addresses):

https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/504718160902492160

This has gone way beyond Zoe Quinn now.

[Bobboau]

I'm assuming she has filed a police report and they are looking into it?

[Mr. Vega]

Yes.

[Bobboau]

good

[NeonShivan]

That's...um...really disturbing. I do hope she can get somewhere safe and away from that psychopath.

[deathfun]

*Cracks fingers*

So who needs someone somewhere sometime dead?

[Nuke]

does anyone else not give a ****? ****!

[Mr. Vega]

Yep. I was worried this would begin to escalate. Hopefully some pushback will happen, now that it's getting media attention.

[Mr. Vega]

And now Zoe Quinn has been driven out of her house as well. But I'm sure she's making it all up.

[Bobboau]

if people are making legitimate threats the they can be legitimately arrested.

[Mr. Vega]

If you can ever trace it back to the source.

[karajorma]

This dick is probably stupid enough to think there would be no repercussions from his posts. I doubt he took much effort to hide his tracks.

[The E]

That's...um...really disturbing. I do hope she can get somewhere safe and away from that psychopath.

"that psychopath" is a disturbing number of people.

[Bobboau]

internet tough men are not a new phenomenon.

[Phantom Hoover]

I think the fact that you can get someone to flee their home by making internet death threats has at least as much to do with the motivation behind these people as actual will or means to murder.

[666maslo666]

does anyone else not give a ****? ****!

Yup.. OMG someone posted anonymous threat of violence to a popular and controversial person's twitter! STOP THE PRESSES!!!

I thought people with 100k+ followers get trolled like this daily, especially if they dont hide their controversial political opinions, thats a magnet for trolls.. Block/report to the police and move on.. Seems like the situation is far better than I thought - from her tweet it seems like this is a rare situation that does not normally happen every day, thats why it was worthwhile to make a tweet about it.

[The E]

I thought people with 100k+ followers get trolled like this daily, especially if they dont hide their controversial political opinions, thats a magnet for trolls.. Block/report to the police and move on.. Seems like the situation is far better than I thought - from her tweet it seems like this is a rare situation that does not normally happen every day, thats why it was worthwhile to make a tweet about it.

The difference is that someone like Tim Schafer can say "look at this video, it's important and you should listen to what this person says", and get lots of responses along the lines of "Oh no, the feminists got to you too!", while when Anita Sarkeesian does it, she gets threatened with rape, murder, identity theft, gets called a whore, a slut, gets told to stay in the kitchen and other fun things.

And yeah, "block/report and move on" is easier said than done. If a large part of your daily interactions with people consisted of them screaming abuse at you, sooner or later it's going to take a toll on your psyche.

[Nuke]

if people really wanted you dead, they would do something less passive aggressive to threaten you, like sticking a puppy's head in your mailbox. this person is probibly not even in the same zip code let alone the same state/country. you dont like it, then pack heat. this is murica people!

[The E]

if people really wanted you dead, they would do something less passive aggressive to threaten you, like sticking a puppy's head in your mailbox. this person is probibly not even in the same zip code let alone the same state/country. you dont like it, then pack heat. this is murica people!

Yes. Which means that a professional hit squad is just one 911 call with a spoofed area code away.

[deathfun]

Maslo...

It's one thing to threaten all those things
It's another to *post their address* while threatening those things

Someone saying "I'm going to kill you" holds a helluva lot less weight than "I know where you live. I'm going to come over there at 123 Fake Street and do things and stuff". The fact *you don't know if they have that ability or not* is what fuels paranoia and inevitably some massive problems psychologically.