Canadian Prime Minister: 'we need to fight GamerGate and videogame misogyny'

[Puppyroach]

Tachikoma said:

Puppyroach said:
I am no feminist but I agree with him regarding GG, and to some degree regarding the other issue. I want more diversity in games and I personally want misogony to go away (it all depends on the context of the game though). But I mainly want game developers to have a high degree of freedom to develop games the way they want them to be.

Fighting GG does not give developers freedom, it empowers those "offended" by elements of games to prevent developers from putting in the content they want, which is the exact opposite of what you say you want.

The way I saw GG when i followed it, was that critics of sexism in video games themselves became victims of sexism and harassment from gamers around the world. That has nothing to do with the freedom a developer has in making games. Having freedom to do something does not mean that you should be immune to critisicim. It´s a whole other thing if the industry is regulated by the government. So ofcourse I can oppose GG while standing for developer freedom.