Rebecca Watson has now come out in favor of doxing…when she does it.
As usual, no links so as to deny her money for mendacity.
She starts by recounting her giving the information about someone who made an obvious joke about PC Meyers getting VD and a conference she put on to Meyers, who subsequently complained to the jokers employer. Yet no suits were filed. More importantly, she has a history of trying to cover her ass by claiming her cheap insults and abuse of privileges given her are just jokes and people taking offense just don't get it. There's some hypocrisy right there.
She then goes on to criticize the black and white thinking that condemns all doxing. This from a woman who wrote "If she's drunk, it's rape." No recognization of degrees of drunkenness. One sip of wine and a woman is no longer responsible for her sexual decisions. So I guess black and white thinking is OK when she does it.
This is followed by claiming that "…doxing can be used for good or ill. Like punching.".
Her example of good punching is Buzz Aldrin punching some guy who claims that the moon landings were a hoax and is giving Aldrin a hard time. He never threatened him, never touched him, yet she condones punching, for talking. Somehow in her mind, punching for talking is good but punching, in self defense, someone who is repeatedly hitting you (in an elevator, no less) is bad. I wonder how she would respond to a man who is going from room to room to avoid a wife screeching in his ear for half an hour and finally punching her just get some relief. I guess it depends upon whether or not she likes you.
She then goes on to misrepresent GamerGate with the canard that is it is all about Zoe Quinn being accused of sleeping around on her then boyfriend. Get your facts right Becky, She admitted to it. And its been said before, claiming that GamerGate is about her is like claiming the the First World War was about the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand. GamerGate is about games journalist using corrupt means to advance a single narrative. Corrupt means such as colluding on secret lists, shutting down the topic on any forum where they have influence, doxing and, of course the usual dasmseling comes up blah, blah, 'rape' threats, blah, blah, 'death' threats. None of which have ever been shown to be credible or from even from a GamerGater.
On the next point she's rig…righ…right.
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I had to go gargle with fire after writing that.
For the sake of argument, we'll ignore the possibility that they were self-sent or sent by cronies using sock accounts, Anita Sarkeesian was within her rights in not obscuring the information on the tweets allegedly threatening her. If you contact someone and fail to take reasonable measures to maintain your privacy, it sucks to be you if they share it.
Truth be told. If someone is sending threats to actually harm someone, I really don't care what happens to them. Call the authorities and let them deal with it. Of course they'll only concern them self with actual threats. The problem lies in her expansive definition of a threat.
Rebecca Watson believes in the Law Of Attraction, where wishing makes it so. That's the only way to confuse "I hope someone kills you." with "I will kill you.". Or, more likely, she is deliberately conflating for rhetorical advantage.
She also mentions slurs. So, given her history of interpreting things to her own advantage, if you catch her in a lie and call her on it by using the term "liar", you are now fair game, "liar" being a slur and all. I wonder if she considers it fair to dox a feminist who repeatedly calls anyone who disagrees with her a "misogynist" or a "neckbeard" Probably not, disagreeing with a feminists puts you in her out group.
The post ends with her threatening to punch people, but I think that is her attempt at a joke.
