[Air-L] #gamergate trolling attack going on now against a feminist tech movement

Zara Rahman zara at cihr.eu
Fri Oct 9 09:00:50 PDT 2015


Hi Gilad,

I was writing about trolling the #takebackthetech community
specifically, and this *is* new, according to key members of that
community. They emailed earlier today to say it started today.

Best,

Zara

On 09/10/2015 17:57, Gilad Lotan wrote:
> This is not new. The “gamergate” community has been continuously
> trolling these issues online. 
> I just published an analysis this morning about the #ShoutYourAbortion
> hashtag, where the gamergate community is actively engaged against the
> different Feminist communities - 
>
> http://qz.com/520309/how-to-tell-whether-a-twitter-user-is-pro-choice-or-pro-life-without-reading-any-of-their-tweets/
>
> Gilad
>
>> On Oct 9, 2015, at 11:44 AM, Zara Rahman <zara at cihr.eu
>> <mailto:zara at cihr.eu>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I thought this might be of interest for those of you studying trolling:
>> there is a (seemingly well-coordinated) Gamergate going on right now
>> against those using the hashtag #takebackthetech and (to a lesser
>> extent) #imagineafeministinternet.
>>
>> Both of these hashtags started with the feminist organisation APC, and
>> they were/are planning an online twitter discussion tonight on the
>> impact of onlnie violence against women - but Gamergate trolls seem to
>> have picked up on it in advance.
>>
>> The community is organising at the moment on how to respond, but if
>> you're interested in following/studying/archiving the attack - head to
>> #takebackthetech <https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeBackTheTech?src=hash>.
>>
>> For reference: https://www.takebackthetech.net/
>> https://www.apc.org/en/about/programmes/womens-networking-support-programme-apc-wnsp
>>
>> Thanks - if you end up working on this topic further, please let me
>> know! And, perhaps this goes without saying but please don't @/tag me or
>> others in your responses if you choose to respond on Twitter. The
>> organisers of the twitter chat have already received abusive twitter and
>> email messages.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Zara
>>
>> -- 
>> Zara Rahman
>> Fellow at Centre for Internet and Human Rights
>> http://zararah.net | Twitter: @zararah
>>
>>
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