Honestly one thing that scares me about it all is the *guilty until proven innocent* mindset. One of the users in question that dug all of this up (David Cernat, a Modder) also contacted several journalists/youtubers and went over his doubts and the evidence that lead to his doubts. These were some responses:Those two tweets aren't loading, but holy christ..
I thought "Gamergate" and "ahh! harassment and death threats! heelllppp!" were histrionic and embarrassing all around, but..
Turns out.. I mean. You're doing basic "reporting" here that tends to mitigate both what "gossip" spreads on "gaming news" sites and the criticism that "ethics in game journalism" was a b.s. pretext for something else. The "harassment" now looks like something vindictive moralistic borderline types have been doing to relatively normal people engaged in anything the tiniest bit unsavory or sexually forward (when they are men; women get a pass and a pass and a pass)
That culture war ended surprisingly
Seeing you defend him, a man who will not defend himself, is seen by most as in poor taste. I'm not going to argue with you in public about it, I'm not going to attack or judge you for it. I'm just saying other people will, and likely will impact opportunities you get from people less understanding than myself (who are most of the world)
Consider what you're trying to do here. You're trying to find trivial faults to cast doubt on women's allegations even though you have to honestly admit you've no idea what happened. You're not truth-seeking here. It's not a good thing to be doing.
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Honestly it looks like you've gone quite far down a conspiracy mindset here. Examine why you are so desperate for these people to be wrong, and why you're contriving the weakest, most circumstantial evidence into a case.
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