I'm not familiar with GamerGate. Can you explain this story?
From reading the article I make some inferences and try to explain what I understood -- I explain below just to illustrate what I understand coming from a place of zero information on the topic -- please clarify and correct my understanding as presented.
GamerGate is a movement of some kind (I actually have no idea what they support) that began deploying an attack called 'doxing' (which I understand involves publicly disclosing the identity behind social media personas in order that real life attacks/intimidation can be conducted against the actual humans) against people they are against.
Anti-GamerGate is a movement with the agenda to 'dox the GamerGate doxxers'. The above article claims to be an account of how two individuals worked together to convince anti-GamerGaters to dox a fake identity and in the process uncovered the identity of the anti-GamerGaters and proceeded to 'dox' them with that information.
What I'm failing to undestand is how exactly this proves anything about left-leaning groups in general? Is it your position that coordinated deployment of fake information can only be used against communities with certain philosophical properties commonly identified as 'liberal'? In your opinion what kind of information would be required to prove this perspective? Do you have evidence to support the idea that communities with a different philosophical leaning would not succumb to such a coordinated mis-information campaign?
From reading the article I make some inferences and try to explain what I understood -- I explain below just to illustrate what I understand coming from a place of zero information on the topic -- please clarify and correct my understanding as presented.
GamerGate is a movement of some kind (I actually have no idea what they support) that began deploying an attack called 'doxing' (which I understand involves publicly disclosing the identity behind social media personas in order that real life attacks/intimidation can be conducted against the actual humans) against people they are against.
Anti-GamerGate is a movement with the agenda to 'dox the GamerGate doxxers'. The above article claims to be an account of how two individuals worked together to convince anti-GamerGaters to dox a fake identity and in the process uncovered the identity of the anti-GamerGaters and proceeded to 'dox' them with that information.
What I'm failing to undestand is how exactly this proves anything about left-leaning groups in general? Is it your position that coordinated deployment of fake information can only be used against communities with certain philosophical properties commonly identified as 'liberal'? In your opinion what kind of information would be required to prove this perspective? Do you have evidence to support the idea that communities with a different philosophical leaning would not succumb to such a coordinated mis-information campaign?
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