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Keep in mind we only know that DDOS is happened. Nobody is saying who does it yet. And everyone is waiting for more details to come out.
I wonder, did you read the whole mailing list? One of #gamergate's conspiracy theory is that the journalists are colluding with each other, and the mailing just proved that there's collusion between them. The initial leak is showing that there's rampant censorship going on and it is massive echo chamber in there. I mean we had Ryan Smith got dogpiled on because he saw where the lines drawn, and Ben Kuchera dogpiled on Greg Tito for unwilling to censor his forum. With some new detail and leaks coming out the conspiracy theory would only get flesh out even further. I am looking forward to the part about 11 articles and such.
The current radio silence from everyone from the other side is to me at least indicated that they realized they are colossally fucked from the leaks. Anymore defense (like Kyle Orland and his diatribe) is just gonna make them look worst.
He mentions letters SEEN by Breibart London, but not shared on there at least any where I can find on top not seeing anything I'd call dogpiling in the link provided and most of what they seem to be discussing is how to cull the abusive harassment and the parts from Jason Schreier about Grayson are true since he mentioned Quinn's name in an article, but that was purely because she happened to be part of a Game Jam along with several other indie devs that had gone sour(which was the actual story and had little to do with Quinn) and the mention of her game was that it had simply been greenlit along with several others, but never reviewed the game itself. One BIG issue I notice in the link provided is that all of it's sources are from itself as in other pages on Breibart, but no other sources are listed except the mailing list in question which can't be opened unless you belong to it and the Kotaku link about the Gamer Jam. This is REALLY not a good sign as it means that all citations are from the same source a and it just feeds back into itself instead of going to more authorative sources. And no, the big major sites that he mentioned at the end are hardly big and major except USA Today and Yahoo and even THEN it's hardly as sign that
video game journalists operate with one voice and collude on major issues to distort coverage of ethics violations and to support figures to whom they are politically sympathetic.
The bolded part is VERY important as none of this really has anything to do with politics or anything of the sort just videogames and opinions are very subjective and the opinion of ONE writer doesn't necessarily reflect that of the entire site.
Edit: I should also note that writers and editors of gaming sites knowing one another and having each others contact info is hardly the sign of some dark shady conspiracy. Shit, pretty much every MMA writer has the mailing address of other MMA writers.
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