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Domestic Terrorism: the new front line in the War on Women

Introduction by Will McLeod (OllieGarkey)The war on women has gone viral, and now involves acts of domestic terrorism. Women in technology are being targeted. Anyone who defends them is targeted, has...

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"This is domestic violence. This is harassment. This is terrorism" Shanley...

Two weeks ago, Breitbart journalist and #gamergate fop hero Milo Yiannopoulous wrote a hit piece targeting Shanley Kane. The hit piece featured salacious tell-all details supplied by ex-boyfriend. Kane...

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YT: Armed Gamergate-r Crashes Mother's Prius en route to Brianna Wu's House

Content Warning: a lot of unintelligible high-pitched swearing and whining.Yesterday afternoon, #gamergate proponent and mentally unstable YouTube personality Jace Connors sent Brianna Wu avideo of...

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Update: "Gamergate Vigilante" Jace Connors Interviews with Ralph Retort and...

The guns were fake, The car accident was definitely real.Last Saturday I wrote about the unstable Youtuber Jace Connors, who wrecked his mother's car while en route to game developer and #gamergate...

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40 BPD Officers doxed, SSN of Federal Judge posted on 8ch.net/baphomet. Admin...

Benjamin Biddix, selling the SSNs of random retirees, Tax ID Numbers of small businesses. Judge Forrest's information was posted "from pastebins" on the orders of a moderator. Dox of the 40 Boston...

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Jace Connors and 4/4 Male Internet Reporters Agree; He Was Just Kidding About...

Nearly a month after I reported on the manic YouTube personality "Jace Connors" wrecking his car en route to Brianna Wu's house, the self-declared Commander and Former Future Marine famous for making...

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Two #gamergate-critical Twitter Users Harassed via Custom Online Printing...

In light of Jace Connor's / Jan Rankowsky's big reveal as a "trolling comedian", other internet creeps have stepped up to fill the void, ready to push the envelope with mail fraud. And I am just...

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Most Polite Man on Twitter Quits Platform after Months of Ceaseless Harassment

Important tweet. Due to all of these reasons--am leaving Twitter. People asking what they can do for me--I do not know. Take care, friends.— Veerender Jubbal (@Veeren_Jubbal) February 24, 2015Fellow...

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Sam Machkovich of Ars Technica Cribs off My Work; Gets Snotty about It on...

@samred I sent you a message. I also sent your editor the same message.— Margaret Pless (@idlediletante) March 2, 2015Remember when I wrote that article on Feburary 11th about baphomet doxxing a...

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Jordan Owen kicks Davis Aurini out of "The Sarkeesian Effect"

It appears as if #gamergate's feature documentary film has encountered another amusing setback. The Sarkeesian Effect's Jordan Owen has apparently pushed his co-creator Davis Aurini out the...

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8ch.net Women's Board /fem/ Spammed, Raided, Trolled. Fem Owner Swami Says...

Fem is what happens if one decided to open r/TwoXChromosomes on 8ch.net. As of today it ranks #50 out of several thousand boards on Fredrick Brennan's platform, but for several weeks it was among...

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Sargon of Akkad and Thunderf00t: #Gamergate's Well-Paid Talking Heads

#Gamergate is like the Tea Party, if the Tea Party was comprised mostly of 14-to-25 year old tech-savvy white boys on the Internet. Most self-identify as left libertarians, though I doubt these boys...

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#Gamergate Harasser Threatens to Sue Randi Harper, Unless She Removes Him...

Yesterday Randi Harper, Founder and CEO of the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative (OAPI), recieved a cease and desist letter from some guy in England named James Desborough; demanding Harper remove his...

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Ars Technica Readers: Meet the Real Hotwheels

Fredrick Brennan: There's no way I can stop this chan board under my sole control, or make it harder for criminals to congregate there. Following the doxing and subsequent harassment of an unnamed Ars...

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Ars Technica Double-Crossed by Baphomet, Brennan's Personal Army

"Should we dox [Machkovech]? One more under our belt couldn't hurt.""If you guys want to by all means it's justified by my perspective." Following his entirely too lenient interview with Fredrick...

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OAPI Founder Randi Harper Foils SWAT Attack

Police on the scene of a 2012 SWAT "prank" called to Ashton Kutcher's home. On April 2nd, around 10:20pm, Randi Harper, creator of the Good Game Auto Blocker blocklist and founder of the Online Abuse...

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Self-Appointed "Witchfinder" Attempts to Automate Twitter Witch Hunts

What kind of neighborhood watch has "Junior Inquisitors"? Good news! A UK Law Student calling himself "The Witchfinder General"has tried unsuccessfully to construct a bot net designed to automate the...

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Podcaster Surreptitiously Photographs Anita Sarkeesian, Possibly in Violation...

Dear dudes: Please don't surreptitiously take photos of women without their knowledge or consent. It’s beyond creepy. pic.twitter.com/iF0hIzHC6G— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq) April 13, 2015Last Sunday...

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A Voice for Men Members Evicted from Expo after Erecting #Gamergate Booth

The booth, depicting #gamergate propaganda images alonside those of AVFM's. Art by Alison Tieman, AVFM Assistant Managing Editor.Four members of a Voice for Men's "Honey Badger Brigade" lost their...

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Contact your Senator: It's time for Women on the $20

I want you to send these guys a letter I wrote. So I heard you like activism. Have you got a minute to contact your Senator? On April 15 Senate Bill S 925 aka The Women on the 20 Act was assigned to...

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Widespread Protests in Baltimore Continue; Police Becoming Increasingly...

Canisters of tear gas litter the streets of Baltimore.Police release an unidentified green gas to disperse protestors.MD State Troopers arriving at the scene.pic.twitter.com/UWgdN8tgSf— Agitator In...

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Brianna Wu's CC Defrauded, Cell Phone Number posted on #Baphomet

Anon: is this the really real [home address] this time? or a former one like last time? that would be disappointing. Vince: No idea. But the phone number is good… Vince: Sending her complementary pizza...

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Seven More Terrible, No-Good Gamergate Cartoons

Gamergate - Maybe you're the baddies. Being a #Gamergater is a lot of work. Writing purple, overcooked prose about how fat women will bring about the end of art takes creativity and paranoia. It is at...

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Eron Gjoni raises $6,767 from Gamergate to Defend Restraining Order Violations

Eron Gjoni, Gamergate's favorite hateful boyfriend, has raised nearly $6,800 in donations (out a $10,000 goal) in his latest donation drive to combat his restraining order and resultant violations of...

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Eron Gjoni Banned from Reddit for Fundraising in Violation of Reddit ToS

Kotaku in Action Redditors donate more money to Eron Gjoni, following a Reddit ban for self-promotion. Following my most recent article about Eron Gjoni and his ongoing fund drive, Gamergate's...

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Hotwheels earns $3,946 in BTC After Being Banned from Gratipay

8chan founder/administrator and #Gamergate hero Fredrick Brennan has been kicked off Gratipay and is now accepting donations Bitcoin only. He's now forced to do his accounting in the same untraceable,...

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8ch.net Unapologetically Hosts Massive Australian Nude Photo Hack

The Fappening is now happening to regular citizens. Hackers have aggregated 400-500 personal erotic photographs made by Australian women and posted the results on 8chan. Whoever was responsible for the...

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The term "#cuckservative" is now an insult within the far right

If #cuckservative@CardinalDolan hates the USA so much, maybe he should move to Mexico #trump2016@realDonaldTrumppic.twitter.com/EHCwjEeOQz— GOP Patriot (@GOP__Patriot) July 31, 2015New this Fall: the...

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UCC Shooter Radicalized By 4chan.org/r9k Message Board

The shooter announcing his plans on r9k the day before the attack.r9k is the same community recruited to stalk Zoe Quinn, an ongoing target of online abuse.Ten people are dead and seven are wounded in...

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Family Business Brigaded on Yelp by MRA YouTube Stars

Minutes before doc-dropping Keller's business, Thunderfoot waxed philosophical about how great and irreplaceable his work is.A DC-area tub restoration company has received many negative reviews on Yelp...

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Phil Mason is Working With Baphomet to Ruin DC Business

Baphomet doxed Keller just before Thunderf00t made a video dropping the same information.It would seem that the personal information about a DC tub restoration business posted by YouTube pundit and...

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How it Feels to Be Targeted By An Internet Hate Mob: One Man's Story

These are the people who never expressed an opinion about thunderf00t, but who may lose their jobs anyway.The owners of Porcelain Tub Restoration have released a public statement regarding the recent...

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Baphomet User Has Been Impersonating Me on Twitter for Months

Will the real Margaret Pless please stand up? It has come to my attention that a Twitter account named "@idiediletante" has been impersonating me for months. The account seems to be controlled by a...

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Is Milo Yiannopoulos Dependent Upon 8chan and Baphomet for Stories?

"That said, you guys do the vast majority of the work. I have always said so. My job is to fact-check, package it up as a publishable story, fact-check again... and then defend the story against...

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World's Most Polite Man Framed as Terrorist on Sky News

Twitter activist and unfailingly pleasant Sikh man Veerender Jubbal has been a target of abuse for some time now. That trolling reached a new height on Saturday, when an anonymous asshole photoshopped...

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Meet The Guy who Earned $40k in Legal Fund Donations After Stalking Feminists...

Gregory Alan Elliot, 53, is on trial for criminally harassing feminist Stephanie Guthrie and 2 other women; repeatedly calling them out on Twitter after they had blocked him and making a show of...

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FeMRA @AndreaHardie Evades Twitter Ban

What happens when a Twitter user violates the rules so many times, in so many ways, that the company issues a permanent ban against them? Do they & this followers publicly demand that the offending...

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Thunderf00t's Footman - A Case Study in Online Intimidation

Part of what drives me to write about assholes on the Internet is how some of them game plausible deniability in order to distance themselves from the consequences their actions have. It bugs me that...

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Greg Elliott Acquitted of Charges, Despite Accusations He Abused A Woman IRL

Gregory Allan Elliott, aka the guy who earned $40k+ in legal fund donations after being indicted for criminal harassment, was acquitted yesterday of charges that he criminally harassed two women using...

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Francisco Dias: Harboring a Dangerous Guest

In case you missed it: a few weeks ago I wrote a guest article in New York Magazine's "Select All" blog about Kiwi Farms, a community which stalks and harasses those they perceive as mentally ill...

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Kiwi Farms Email Server is Still Tor-Friendly. Josh Moon Pleads Incompetence.

Lolcow.email is, according to its creator Joshua Moon, “The fruit of Kiwi Farms”. Essentially, it’s an email server optimized for people who want to send burner emails with fraudulent or shocking...

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Open Letter: Regarding the President Elect, Donald Trump

11/14/16To: Representative Elect Adriano Espaillat, Senator Charles Schumer,And Senator Kirsten Gillibrand From: Margaret Caroline PlessDear Representative Espaillat and Senators Schumer and...

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