Dear Internet, Please stop making threats against Anita Sarkeesian. First, of course, it's a ter…
Dear Internet,
Please stop making threats against Anita Sarkeesian.
First, of course, it's a terrible thing to do to another human being, and you're a terrible person if you do it.
Additionally, though, Sarkeesian's work is mostly crap. She cherry-picks evidence, ignores counter-evidence, and generally says stupid things and comes up with baseless conclusions. I've not noticed any serious people in gaming giving her "work" any credence. And you morons out there give her even more of a platform by saying threatening, creepy, or hateful things to and about her. No one would know who she is if not for you jerks. You want to shut her up but you're having the exact opposite effect.
So, because it's a terrible thing to do to another person, and also because it gives her a platform her ridiculously bad work does not deserve: stop making threats against Anita Sarkeesian. 
It is tremendously disheartening to suspect that the treatment of women online is getting worse, not better. We've had decades of experience dealing with those who use the Internet with the intent to cause mental or physical distress or harm. We real...
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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