Amazon takes down Gamergate e-book containing anti-Zoe Quinn rape fantasy

GamerGate has not bottomed out quite yet. The pent-up rage of a group of disenfranchised misogynists has found a new digital outlet for harassing one of their targets, games developer Zoe Quinn, in the form of Amazon Kindle e-books.

If you are one of the handful of people still bleating that GamerGate is about ‘ethics in games journalism’, then a 3,000+ word e-book [which now looks to have been taken down] about five men raping a “controversial video game designer” — with the thinly veiled fictional name of Zada Quinby — really isn’t going to help your cause.

The real life Quinn is the developer of an interactive game about depression, called Depression Quest.

This e-book is just another example of the highly unpleasant trolling that has characterized GamerGame, much of it playing out on Twitter, where hate speech has been allowed to flow free. And where rape and death threats have driven multiple women in the games industry out of their homes, or forced them to cancel speaking engagements.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/19/gamergate-e-book/

This whole phenomenon just makes me

This is where modern day technology makes me wish for a simpler life tbh.

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This is where modern day technology  makes me wish for a simpler life tbh.

Yeah, I think the tech is at least partly to blame -- or at least, how people use it. These men festering in their own little sick thoughts used to have to leave the house or their parents' basement once in a while and at least acknowledge some semblance of normal reality; now I think they glob together in these communities that reinforce one another and they end up becoming more convinced they're right and probably more extreme, in a lot of cases.

I continue to hear people say this is all about fighting for ethics in video game journalism. First off, way to take on the really important, big causes, right? Secondly, I don't think anyone ever accused of unethical journalism of any kind has had a rape-fantasy published about them ...

I don't think it is about ethics in media gaming journalism only heard the media say that.

There is multiple parts to this story really but mass media has over simplified

one (which the rape novel is part of) is the fact that there are some very sick people on the internet and they do have the ability to 'socialize' amongst themselves far more than ever before. There is probably a higher correlation between these people and hard core gamers (autism )

two (the actual start) is revenge porn or using social media for revenge on a spurned/ex-lover

three is that gamer culture is becoming mainstream or the corporations are trying to make it mainstream .... but they have a problem as much as they want the strong female lead and not-ultra violent game-play the only people willing to pay top dollar want ultra violence and sexism in their games. The huge growth in casual gamers has not translated to more sales of the triple-A titles which are then exclusive domain of the already established developers.... so you have the big developers hating the people that actually buy their games because they believe they prevent access to a larger market.

four and the fact these guys cant get a date