And I asked politely! :) Welcome Tam! :D

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I agree with both your points. Unfortunately from what I understand the main GamerGate movement had a mixture of both hijacking and willingly inviting some of the people in that took over their movement. So I’d say it’s about 50/50 blame that can be spread towards the original GamerGate movement.

As for the internet, yes, things can be spread/veered off track by opposing forces, but I can think of other movements that have had attempted “hijacks” (Malala’s cry for education comes to mind, I forget what the hashtag was though) that have had damage control from the original organizers and still managed to weed out the trolls.

As for not making the headlines overly volatile, I don’t think that headlines for this particular issue would’ve become so attention-grabbing if death threats hadn’t been made towards the original women developers that were the targets in the beginning.

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