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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn are speaking at the UN about online harassment

- Yesterday Anita, Zoe and co. met with Google Ideas to find ways to fight against online harassment:

After posting the above tweet and getting the expected responses, Google Ideas posted the following:

- there is a UN live stream where apparently they will speak about the topic of "Cyber Violence Against Women & Girls: A Worldwide Wake-Up Call". Here it is:

http://webtv.un.org/live-now/watch/launch-of-the-broadband-working-group-on-gender-report/4484980560001#full-text

I don't know if it is over or not. I just saw it. Maybe it hasn't started.

- the description of the live stream event says the following:

The UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development’s Working Group on Gender, co-Chaired by UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and supported by ITU, will launch its final outcome report entitled “Cyber Violence Against Women & Girls: A Worldwide Wake-Up Call” in New York on Thursday 24 September. The report tackles the increasingly urgent issue of safety and security online for women and girls.

Format: Working Group Co-Chairs Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women and Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP will launch the report before an invited audience of top-level guests. High-level interventions will be followed by a moderated panel discussion led by report coordinator Nidhi Tandon and featuring special guests including Baroness Beeban Kidron (award-winning director of the film ‘In Real Life’ and the leader of the UK-based iRights campaign), online activist Anita Sarkeesian, and others. The panel discussion will also provide for audience interaction.

The event will be filmed and selected Tier 1 media will be present.

Event organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in collaboration with UN-Women and UNDP.



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

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AbbathTheGrim said:

The event will be filmed and selected Tier 1 media will be present. 


And media that won't question the narative will be allowed, everyone else refused.



Ka-pi96 said:
Doesn't she harass people online herself though?

I read that same comment in one of the responses to the above tweets. xD



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

Whhhhyyyyy....



Bet with Adamblaziken:

I bet that on launch the Nintendo Switch will have no built in in-game voice chat. He bets that it will. The winner gets six months of avatar control over the other user.

Why would the queens of hating white/straight/males walk into the den of the beast itself?



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anita speaking about online harassment is like making saudi arabia the head of the UN human rights council...



Ka-pi96 said:
Doesn't she harass people online herself though?

Takes one to know one I guess.

Next, Putin talking about peace.



If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.

generic-user-1 said:
anita speaking about online harassment is like making saudi arabia the head of the UN human rights council...


At least your example would be interesting.



An awesome event in which u can't clap because it could trigger people.

I'm all for free speech but prestigious organization should take a better look at who they give credit to.



Only females get harassed online? That's interesting.