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gamergate has taken on a life of its own, but in a specific community, in a simple term, what is gamergate there's no one perfect definition, but there is a strong thread of sort of gamergate that represents people who feel that a sort of political correctness has been seeping into journalism about the videogame business. they feel that there has been sort of a liberal, feminist tone creeping into a lot of critiques of videogames. at one point, that is what gamergate was intended to represent. since it started, it has morphed into a much broader sort of boundary-less online mob of people who are targeting mostly women affiliated with the videogame industry for sort of different types of harassment and even threats. >> what is anita sarkeesian's role here? what is she trying to accomplish? what has she already accomplished? >> she has a calm pushed a lot because we are talking about it, but she is a media critic who has spent dozens and dozens of hours playing games. she has 10 or 12 videogame consoles in her apartment, and she is looking for patterns in the way that these games represent w

, people have been targeted for harassment by the gamergate community.nd many of them said, you know, facebook has actually gotten better at dealing with this. they take a report seriously, and they do something about it. twitter hasn't done that yet. if you look at the -- they do not have a forum to report abuse until this year or last year, which is kind of insane for a network that's been around since 2011. and, you know -- 2007. i hope they're doing it more seriously. twitter's not the public internet. they have their own rules. they're allowed to change them to make it easier for people who are being harassed or others being harassed to call out to fenders, and they have not done enough. >> and going back to our sort of case example for the day, a lot of these images -- not just jennifer lawrence, but of celebrities more generally -- were circulating on web sites and sort of blew up when they hit reddit which really makes some of these images go viral which i believe was ultimately shut down. it was sort of a question of i've heard it said many time