Trolling, stalking, sexual harassment, and humiliation have become so bad that one in ten respondents had depressive or suicidal thoughts.
Tag Archives: Gamergate
Privacy and targeting are among new video controls for Facebook Pages
Now, video uploaders can discriminate – or is it target-market? – based not only on language and location, but also on gender and age. 
Twitter’s new ‘Block Together’ enables en masse blocking of trolls
The new Twitter tool is meant to enable communities to share lists of problem accounts instead of having to pick them off one by one.
Reddit to crack down on online harassment
Reddit has vowed to take a more active role in protecting its members from personal attacks and online harassment.
Gamer swatted while live-streaming on Twitch.TV
A gamer has been targeted by anonymous trolls in the middle of a Twitch stream of RuneScape. 
Gamergate target Zoe Quinn launches network to battle online harassment
Crash Override pre-emptively warns would-be swatting victims and has gotten one police department to knock with hands, not boots.
GamerGate critic ‘swatted’, about 20 cops go to old address
Police responded to reports of an armed man holding multiple hostages at what the swatter thought was the address of a female game developer. 
Another game developer flees her home following Gamergate death threats
US-based game developer Brianna Wu (the third woman to be driven from her home in what’s being dubbed the Gamergate controversy) after a troll posted her address online and threatened to rape, kill and mutilate her. 