Responsibility is primarily on the idiots who decided to dig into this girl's personal life for no good reason. 

Prostitution without a pimp shouldn't be considered illegal or immoral, pimps should, and marriage of convenience too.

All I know about this harassment campaign is Rapp talking smack at people complaining about FE's localization and people talking smack back at her.  I mean, she works in PR/marketing; what the hell was she doing talking trash to people complaining about a localization when she's supposed to be representing a multi-billion dollar, child-friendly company?  If I were in her position, I would have just kept my mouth shut and went about my business.  If I had the need to talk smack, I would have done so anonymously -- not on my twitter account where I say I work for Nintendo.  The last thing I'd want to do is put a potential target on my back by saying volatile things that could get someone upset enough at me to dig into my personal life -- especially if I had skeletons in my closet.

"But the fact of the matter is, she lied to Nintendo about her sex work and then she turned around and lied to the public when she got fired. She deserves no sympathy and no quarter. Now is the time to push this story into every sector imaginable. We’re literally going all over the world with this one."

Priceless stuff right there. Alison lost her job; she has been punished already! What in the world is the point of all this!? Why is it so important that we let the entire world know about these evildoings of hers?

Not even slightly.

And that's the entire point.

The elements who push for certain unnecessary, even silly elements to be changed due to their own social prudishness? They're dicks. The gaming media who, in order to generate traffic and ads have no problems throwing up people's dirty laundry and just serve to fan the flames of all this nonsence, are dicks, and there are legitimate concerns about an industry who rely upon the very industry they are supposed to be monitoring for advertising dollars, review copies, etc, etc. And GamerGate, who- despite impassioned denials by certain, shall we say, '3rd party individuals'- is rife with elements that use the supposed movement as an excuse to cross any moral or ethical boundaries, and who have yet other elements that bend backwards to make excuses and enable those monstrous people, are dicks.

There is blame aplenty. There are causes aplenty, and problems to go around.

But one of those problems is when certain people go out of their way to sweep the collateral damage under the rug, to claim that any side in this whole sordid mess is somehow taking the high road. Lives destroyed, people hounded online and by phone, identities doxxed and all while '3rd Party Individuals' are cheering from the sidelines, quick to take credit when convenient, quick to disperse when held culpable.

Ethics should not end at games journalism. It should not be 'Hold journalists to a high standard, but we can do whatever we want.' Any movement that wishes to use the term 'Ethics' without being laughed out of the room needs to be even-handed and consistent, not throw the term aside when it grows inconvenient.

I mean, come on man, I linked an article full of people denouncing the 'SJWs' trying to support Allison, while you're here going on about how the 'SJWs' are against her. This is how incredibly messy, how unbelievably twisted things have gotten, where literally everything wrong with anything GamerGate is involved with must be the fault of someone, anyone other than GamerGate, probably SJWs.

Probably, kind of like the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists probably should've kept their mouth shut too. 

But that raises a pretty disturbing scenario here ... that certain group of "idiot gamers" (lets call them that for convienance sake) feel so upset by some tweets that they decide to dig into every aspect of this person's personal life in an attempt to get her fired/publicly shamed. 

Maybe some people need to grow the fuck up. Video games isn't a religion and even if it was, there's no reason to launch a crusade against someone in this manner. 

They're basically the ISIS of gaming and it's not just in these situations I'm seeing this, recently Jimmy Kimmel did a skit making fun of some gamers and he received death threats for it, tons of them. 

Could be anyone, those are hardly comparable

Also apparently Neogaf is deleting any threads about the subject now that the truth has come out, despite leaving the other ones opened when people blamed Nintendo in them. I guess now that Nintendo can't be blamed and it no longer fits their view they just hope nobody notices if they ignore it now.

No wonder that site is laughed at and gets shit on by so many people.

I'm really eager to see what EG will say about this, if any - cause in their original covering of Rapp story they played their usual SJW fiddle, even going as far as making "guidelines" to mods to delete all posts questioning Rapp's wrongdoings, which provoked massive backlash in comments for trying to shut down any kind of discussion.

But, again, who am I kidding, they have zero integrity and ethics, they are just as click-bait oriented as Polygon and Kotaku.

To be honest I don't think this should be news in the sense that this really has nothing to do with gaming. 

From the sounds of it this girl was totally the type that was all cool with sexualized gaming anyway which is the fucking irony ... these doofuses decided to get pissed off at someone who probably agreed with them 9/10 times and had nothing to do with what they were originally angry about anyway.