Nintendo releases a statement to IGN.
"Alison Rapp was terminated due to violation of an internal company policy involving holding a second job in conflict with Nintendo’s corporate culture. "

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/03/31/nintendo-terminates-fire-emblem-fates-spokesperson

But of course people are going to say this is a smokescreen

Yeah.  She did it on an account where she specifically stated she worked for Nintendo and when she did that, anything she posted on that account could be seen as something that Nintendo condones.  If anything, I'm wondering how she was able to keep her job for so long when NOA clutches to their family friendly image as hard as they do.

See, this is the type of conclusion-jumping that people here are talking about.

Yeah, I've seen some of her views, and they're definitely controversial. But nothing justifies online harassment. Nintendo should have defended her in public when she started to being harassed. The reasons why she was fired could be totally unrelated, we don't know, but, still, they didn't defend her when she was part of Nintendo. 

I'm curious. Has any outlet owned by Gawker ever criticised people for attacking the likes of Richard Dawkins, Tim Hunt, Matt Taylor or Phil Mason, one of whom lost their job because of the online outrage, over their 'controversial' comments? I'm just curious if Gawker and its employees/contractors are against online mobs getting, or attempting to get, people fired in general, or only if it happens to certain people (people of the same ideological bent).

I personally don't condone any of these outrage mobs directly targeting people's source of income, regardless if I generally agree with their views or not, but I am curious to see if Gawker is neutral in this or if it celebrates outrage mobs in one instance whilst decrying them in another (like its approach to sexual imagery of celebrities).

World doesn't work that way, defending her would be interpreted by the mainstream media as defending her stance, she herself didn't help matters as she openly engaged and taunted people herself. If you champion controversial views like pedophilia prepare to fight your own battles in regards to them.

I don't know if gamergate people were responsible for this because from what I saw on twitter, it was 3rd party trolls that were really pushing this hard while people who were complaining about the localization of FE:Fates wanted to avoid going after Rapp because she was PR (meaning she had no influence in the localization process). And even then, I can't really damn the 3rd party trolls because at least they were using actual evidence and not the usual vague, nondescript condemnations sent to places of employment/family/friends/loved ones that militant progressives and feminists are fond of utilizing when they want to ruin peoples lives for the horrible crime of disagreeing with them.

Wow, she's nutty.

Nintendo obviously doesent want to be associated with that.

Exactly. People nowadays keep on forgetting that there are consequences for your actions.  If you want to push a controversial opinion, you better damn well make sure that you either have ironclad job security or are well-off enough that you don't have to work.  From what I've seen, the people defending Rapp seem to be following some kind of odd narrative about harrassment when from what I've seen, she was giving as good as she was receiving.  And honestly, I have a feeling if this person were named Andrew Rapp, a lot of the people complaining about this probably wouldn't give a damn.

if anyone defends her even after seeing this are terrible people. hell i freaking respect trump supports way more then i respect anyone who says anything pro-pedo.