Listen as Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos and writer Allum Bokhari participate in the Institute of Idea’s discussion covering geek culture, Gamergate, social justice warriors, and more.
Digital media festival South By Southwest (SXSW) has caved to media pressure following their decision to cave to online threats last week. Two panels were cancelled last week: one on gaming culture and integrity in games media, and another on “harassment
The internet was born open but is becoming closed everywhere. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the rush to shutter readers’ comments sections at major news organisations.
The United States, as we know it today, was born in an anonymous debate. On September 27, 1787, an anonymous writer using the pen-name “Cato” wrote an essay for the New York press, criticising the proposed US constitution, which was then awaiting ratification by the states. Cautioning against an overly-powerful executive and the establishment of a standing army, the essay soon triggered a response from “Publius,” another pseudonymous author, who argued in favour of the new constitution. By then a third pesudonymous critic, “Brutus,” had also entered the debate.
Radical cultural authoritarian and Salon contributor Arthur Chu has called for the repeal of a key legal foundation of free and open discourse in the U.S, which protects web hosts from legal liability for third-party comments on their sites. In an article
DriveThruRPG, one of the largest online distributors of role-playing games, is embroiled in controversy because online social justice activists discovered the site was selling an RPG entitled Tournament of Rapists. RPGs often describe gory battles in fictional settings, and aren’t known for avoiding violent themes. Rolemaster, for
PhD candidate Victoria Cooper gave a presentation at July’s International Medieval Congress in which she claimed that “the Middle Ages is a space where white supremecy [sic] is legitimised.” Cooper asserted that conservative and nationalist groups are hijacking medieval history to push white privilege.
is dissolving after it outed a finance director at a rival media group as gay, knowingly co-operating with an extortion attempt by a gay prostitute in the process. Editors took just 24 hours to decide to publish the story.
Have you heard about the UK’s new Women’s Equality Party? Well, you’re a Breitbart reader, so I’ll presume no. Allow me to darken your day.
Writer and director Eli Roth, best known for his horror film Hostel, is promoting his new film The Green Inferno at Comic-Con. In an interview on Friday, Roth explained the film was inspired by so-called social justice warriors (SJWs) operating on social media.
Libertarian Party leader Tim Moen has done the smart thing, reinstating Lauren Southern with a guarantee that her freedom of speech will be protected.
The Libertarian Party of Canada is in turmoil following the bizarre suspension of Lauren Southern, one of the party’s most visible and popular candidates, at the behest of a small group of aggrieved feminist activists.
The Electronics Entertainment Expo — better known as E3 — is the highlight of the gaming calendar. As the biggest video game companies in the world gather in Los Angeles for a string of exclusive announcements, it’s a time of year when gamers put down their controllers and gaze eagerly at their newsfeeds.
Earlier this year, we reported on the “Sad Puppies”, a campaign by a politically diverse set of sci-fi and fantasy authors to promote political tolerance, openness, and creative freedom within the medium. Because their chief opponents were a set of hard-line progressive
When failed discrimination plaintiff Ellen Pao was appointed CEO of Reddit last January, many predicted that it would herald a new age of censorship on the link-sharing and discussion site. Those predictions appear to have come true, as a number of communities on the site (known as “subreddits”) have just been unilaterally shut down.
After the events of the past nine months, you’d think identity warriors would have learned that their divisiveness is not welcome in the world of gaming.
Bogus reader reviews have long been a problem for websites like Amazon and Goodreads. Intended as a mechanism to allow readers to dabble in literary criticism, their accessibility has left them vulnerable to political and personal vendettas. Despite the efforts of Amazon to stamp out
The ongoing controversy over racist comments made by Goldsmiths University diversity officer Bahar Mustafa has generated a national conversation on the state of identity politics, with the editor of politics.co.uk being the latest to weigh in. Students at Goldsmiths are currently deciding whether
It’s tough to hate white men today. Once upon a time, statements like “#killallwhitemen” went relatively unnoticed, whereas now they are liable to get you suspended from your political party or put your job as ‘diversity officer’ in jeopardy. Even
GaymerX, a convention and support group for homosexual, lesbian and transsexual video game enthusiasts, is under fire for systematically discriminating against gay gamers on the basis of political beliefs, leaving thousands of gay gamers neglected and unrepresented. Gay, bisexual, lesbian and
The chief complaint from the Sad Puppies campaigners is the atmosphere of political intolerance and cliquishness that prevails in the sci-fi community.
You may have heard that Marvel has turned Thor into a woman. What you probably don’t know, because you likely greeted the news with bafflement and horror and then resolved never to pick up a comic book from that company
