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You know… It’s becoming easier to be an Italian, lately.
I live in the most beautiful country in the world, but its population leaves much to be desired. World record in functional ignorance and politicians’ wages, european record in corruption, last place in culture and school, birthplace of modern organized crime, etc…
But then I look at things like #GoogleAbuse and the #PrisonSchool Funimation Gamedropping and think: hey, at least we don’t have that level of radfems yet. And while our translators may suck, our voice actors are talented and don’t take that kind of liberty.
Jokes to the side, it seems that a part of the american population -a few of which I’m more and more convinced should be on some kind of medication-, growing up, have managed to miss all the life lessons that taught the following concepts: self-awareness, the concept of irony, logical thought, and ‘dude, that’s a fucking bad idea’.
And some of these problem kids have managed to infiltrate even freaking Google, in particular their subdivision called Google Ideas. A quick search shows the following definition: “Google Ideas builds products to support free expression and access to information for people who need it most — those facing violence and harassment.”
Sounds nice. But here comes the first three missed lessons in play, all together. A surprising lack of self-awareness, the concept of irony and logical thought prompted the brain-donors in charge of Google Ideas to invite to discuss ‘free expression and access to information’ for ‘people facing violence and harassment online’ people like: Anita Sarkeesian, Randi Lee Harper, Zoe Quinn and Rose Eveleth, among others.
So in order, we got:
Someone who’s lied and cherrypicked information, refuses to debate her ideas and theories, shuts down all comments on her vids, and has stolen other people’s content time and again;
The woman behind online gems like ‘I hope you die in a fire’ and ‘you made your gamergate bed, now go lie into it’, and used to send her followers to attack her critics;
Someone who crashed and burned a feminist fund-raiser and got a -now thankfully abolished- bogus gag order on a past partner while actively stalking him online;
And last but not least, and for me the most heinous offender on the list, the person responsible for #ShirtStorm.
You know, when a team of multicultural european scientists were celebrating the achievement of a lifetime: having landed a probe on a comet, something which’s degree of difficulty is just above making Anita Sarkeesian use actual facts and just below having Kanye West be humble.
Lady Rose Eveleth of the house of missing grey matter decided that what was really important, though, was the fact that dr Matt Taylor was wearing a shirt, present from a female friend, depicting sexy women holding guns. What followed was a wave of worldwive online harassment against the scientist, which ended with him having to apologize in tears. This mouth breather ruined the achievement of a lifetime for a man, his team and the WHOLE OF HUMANITY.
And these people are the people the guys at Google Ideas decided to invite to discuss fighting ‘online harassment’. That’d be like if a government of people with trials and actual guilty verdicts was allowed to discuss and touch the constitution… Which is exactly what’s happening in my country right now. Fuck.
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