John Roman for the Urban Institute: The #GamerGate movement’s self-proclaimed predication is the idea that journalistic ethics have been compromised by close relationships between those who review video games and those who create video games. Those supporting #GamerGate believe their whole culture is at risk from threats of censorship.
But from the outside, the #GamerGate movement appears to be about a fear that violent video games with oversexualized female characters will be banished in the name of political correctness. And in the name of #GamerGate, journalists and game developers, mainly women, have faced unrelenting online harassment. … People have been driven from their homes by threats of rape and homicide. Events have been cancelled by threats of mass murder.
