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whiteknight101 said:

Threats made over Twitter (a.k.a the Internet) are by nature federal crimes if the person making the threat is from another state or country. Relevant statute is 18 U.S. Code § 875 - Interstate communications.

( c ) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

It is thus not surprising at all that the FBI rather than the SFPD would handle the case.

The "people" who "dug around" a little are /v/ and /pol/ of 4chan, and the corresponding crowd at Reddit. The characterizing trait of those people is that they dont worry whatsoever about being either prudent or diligent or fair. They just want to see sh*t go down, because wow that's entertaining.

Case closed.

ETA: In fact, on closer reading, a threat from the same state over Twitter is also a federal crime, since it's made "in insterstate [...] commerce". Any threat over Twitter is a federal crime.

Your user name would suggest you have a vested interest in the case? Is that not an outdated term now compared to White Male Allies I believe they were trying to push at PAX... because that doesn't sound racist at all.



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I'm so disappointed Neil Druckmann supports this scam artist.



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Anita Sarcasm. This woman is shame for every woman that has to deal with real problems....


Tbh going all "help me I am defenseless I have to move to my friends so they can protect me. Please media help me T,T" is completely counterproductive to her. "Women are strong!" bullcrap.



deskpro2k3 said:

it appears she is a lier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuRSaLZidWI



To be fair, as Anita isn't a gamer it is more than likely she was fed that dancer killing sequence from Hitman rather than her knowing the actual context from playing the game. And that lies at the hart of why her commentary on video games is problematic. You want to comment on sexim in movies or TV or literature, you actually watch the whole of the movie ot TV show, or you read the book, and then you draw your conslusions and make your arguments. A non-gamer cannot possibly sociologically critique games in general, or even a game because they don't actually play through it and so their critique is always based on information they're fed, and then conclusions and arguments are drawn from that 2nd or 3rd hand information.

I think she raises some valid concerns, and she doesn't limit those concerns to video games. After all she critiques other forms of entertainment along the same lines, so video games are not being singled out as such. But her specific attention to video games is compromised because she does not access them in the same way she access TV and movies, so she has poor quality evidence. But some of her evidence is valid, IMO, albeit I disagree that there is any kind of sexual thrill to be had from almost any in game victimisation. One example is the multiple instances of broad daylight, on the streen prostitute knifing mini-missions in RDR. Not only are they unrealistic and ridiculous (ergo you can't claim "realism for that time in America"), they are repeated all over the place. It is a constant representation of women as victims. And if you don't step in to help, what's the consequence for the killer? Kill an "innocent" in the game, within sight of the law, and you get chased down or you have a bounty on your head, which you have to pay off. But an NPC murders a hooker out on the street with several witnesses, and nothing, mini-mission over. At least have the killer arrested, and some time later you come back and the killer is publicly hanged for murder. It's that casual disregard in the way some games deal with these forms of violence that I think needs to be changed. And if developers do change it will actually make for deeper and less repetative games. So sometimes casual disregard is actually a sign of laziness.

I'm not giving much attention to claims that the twitter threats are all made up for self-promotion. And I'm very interested to see who's jumping on those accusations and using them to have a go at her again. As the FBI is investigating I make 2 assumptions: 1) Anita Sarkeesian is intelligent enough not to fake death threats on Twitter and then lay a complaint to the FBI; 2) the FBI has the capability, and will use it, to get to the bottom of the threats, and if Anita is stupid enough to have faked her own death threats on Twitter she will be exposed and her career as a youtube critic will be over, or at least she will have no credibility with anyone who matters. So I suggest people wait and see what happens with the FBI investigation before potentially embarrassing themselves by both perpetuating a possibly false accusation, and further spewing forth invective about Anita Sarkeesian based on that possibly false accusation. When the facts are in, if they show Sarkeesian to have faked all the worst death threats and such, then you can spew forth all the invective you want.



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binary solo said:
 



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About the prostitutes in RDR. How many innocent men can be knifed, shot, and then dragged under a passing train? In that time period it was nearly lawless in the wild west.

There is prostitutes in real life, and strip bars etc, these adult women made that choice on their own. As a result they turn men into a cash dispensing machines. If she wants the "sexism" to stop, then she has to tell these women in these profession to stop what they're doing otherwise game developers will just use what we got in real life.



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binary solo said:

To be fair, as Anita isn't a gamer 


And without wanting to delve any further into this incredibly toxic subject, that is quite possibly the single biggest issue with her whole "critical" analysis of the subject.



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If this is true; she's pathetic.



wouldn't surprise me 1 bit coming from a con artist like this person. same type of scum as good old Jack Thompson



You should just ignore this woman if you don't care for what she says.



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