Link on the "Canadian man"? I hadn't heard anything about it before this, and I would like to read more on it. I do have a hard time agreeing with most of this post though. The closest thing I've seen to anyone punishing anyone for speaking was the stuff 0roo0roo was posting about Twitter. Maybe I just don't care enough about Twitter (I honestly don't care at all about it) nor the people who post on it thinking they're important but I just don't see how a private company deciding how people can use this private service (that's totally optional, there are other formats to be heard on the internet) is that big a deal. I've seen this "Sarky" person present to the UN, but so have a lot of other people. Even after she did present to them, did anything change? I'm being serious.. I just don't see how she matters outside of the people pretending she does.
As for the people in this thread, I've seen both "sides" use the same arguments, and both "sides" are pretending to be the victim of the other. I'm not saying two wrongs make a right, but it's hard to feel bad for anyone while they're making personal attacks on someone who disagrees with them.
Twitter is just one company, but its telling what has become the social norm in some tech circles, never mind the media. Jack Dorcey, a billionaire is responding to specific sjw's, Randi has no relevant qualifications to speak of, and yet, she like the others is entitled to personal attention.
People like Sarkeesian don't change law's simply by going to the UN, they lend legitimacy to social pressure which creates a false impression of public consensus on an issue through a drum beat of media promoting the threat narratives, making it "safe" for politicians to enact legislation like the "Harmful Digital Communications" Act in New Zealand. The change happens beneath peoples feet while they sleep, the activists, the pressure groups lobby and build their cases through agenda studies fed to the media which change the common understanding, until craven politicians like Obama end up parroting their lines, like 1 in 4, 75 cents on the dollar. Do you think Obama really believes those figures? He's a smart man, he can do math, but he panders. And so you have things like the quiet changes the Obama administration has taken to enforce reinterpretation of the title ix education amendments on campus through mandates, which threatened funding for non compliance leading to the dogs being let off their leashes, creating regulations resulting in environments where false accusations thrived.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428910/campus-rape-courts-republicans-resisting
As John has outlined, there is now a normalization where such women can act with impunity, free from repercussions for the damage they cause.
"lived experiences" trump fact and reason...
https://archive.is/dDwL0
The Feminist Future of Law
johntheother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwPRFyjCt5U
Mattress girl walks free, as does Lena Dunham, there is no social cost to these people, never mind legal censure for their actions, to the point where even presidential candidates do not fear association with such people.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw...ican-rapist-story-falls-apart-under-scrutiny/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw...na-dunham-is-celebrated-as-a-rape-role-model/
Just in the case of Zoe Quinn, she abused the law in an attempt to punish her ex, enforcing a gag order on him while she smeared his name for over a year, while with her $750 an hour lawyers, she attempted to bleed him dry.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc...quinn_hired_the_law_firm_wilmer_hale_for_her/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation
Her case was illegitimate from the get go.
Turnabout #Gamergate! -- Indie-Fensible
ShortFatOtaku
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ5QkJGA1ds
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...be-unintentionally-strengthened-by-zoe-quinn/
She only dropped the case recently because Eron through crowd funding and frankly some charity on the part of the firm defending him, was able to stand his ground.
Now he is pushing forward to set legal precedent to prevent further abuse of this law, so no one else is bankrupted through such underhanded means.
She may walk away unpunished, but by setting precedent it cements into legal history the fact that her narrative was never legitimate.
Something people may consider chipping in to, it has almost reached its goal
The Freeze Peach Fund
https://twitter.com/eron_gj/status/698547203472814080
There are no two "sides", there is justice, and there is actual abuse of the laws and an attempt to distort social norms by "social justice warriors"
It's always all too easy to take the cowardly way out of an issue by dismissing both sides as equally wrong. It's the non position you can apply to anything in the world.
Tech is next on the radar for these people
You may have seen this headline across multiple outlets
Turns out the study wasn't even peer-reviewed
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-excited-about-that-github-study/
but it doesn't matter when the goal is to change the common understanding of an issue with propaganda. Just look at how long the 1 in 4 figure lasted. In fact even in the light of recent events, Obama is doubling down.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-office-for-civil-rights-budget_us_56ba34d5e4b08ffac122d747
Anyways a point for point break down of Randi Harpers "suggestions" to Jack Dorcey for fixing twitter, with the usual suspects backing her.
Even the sjw who recently got a taste of "social justice" for daring to wrong think.
#GamerGate thoughts: Bug Brain
Top hat Coyote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZFOdc_V4bM
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