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He doesn't want people to know how much of a bad boy he's been on wikipedia.
Skitzocow Mark Bernstein - Ryulong 2.0, Creepy Paranoid Stalker and Anti-Gamergate Loser with Delusions of Grandeur
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He doesn't want people to know how much of a bad boy he's been on wikipedia.
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The other day Mark retweeted someone's reply to Mike Cernovich which mentioned Gamergate and Wikipedia. Mark is still watching that Twitter thread.
Mark's "hasty notes" turned out to be a massive mound of salt about Donald Trump, Alison Rapp, Gamergate, and Wikipedia. http://archive.is/QKcg5
Reprehensible
Suddenly, political violence is once more an immediate concern. Trump rallies are incendiary, and Trump’s bizarre denunciations of judges on racial and religious grounds light other fires. Once we accept violence in politics, it will be incredibly hard to return to a sane and livable world.
At the same time, the internet is threatened by a wave of politically-inspired extortion.
Gamergate has discovered a valuable new tactic: they can force opponents to acquiesce in their schemes by using opposition research to threaten them, their families, and their jobs. The proving ground has been Wikipedia; if it works there – and at the moment it’s working well — it will spread throughout what remains of the open, non-corporate Web. Gamergate itself was a juvenile conspiracy of trolls, but their success has now inspired large and capable right-wing operations across the globe.
Widespread extortion is a threat to civil society and to a free internet.
The situation is especially dire at Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that “anyone can edit.” Once the threat of opposition research becomes established, no responsible person will dare defy the extortionists. Responsible people – especially teachers – now edit at grave risk to their careers. Encouraging students to edit, once a widespread practice, exposes them to anti-semitism, sexual harassment, and extortion.
The “Gamaliel” Case
Gamergate and its Trumpeter allies have forced reform administrator “Gamaliel” – elected last December to the Arbitration Committee (the supreme authority for Wiki governance) on an anti-harassment platform – to accede to their ongoing assault on Wikipedia. Gamaliel works as a librarian at a Catholic university in the United States. Gamergate thought he was a thorn in their side. To silence a perceived critic, Gamergate supporters wrote to his employer, threatening to tie the school to child abuse. In the wake of these threats, Gamaliel was forced to take the extraordinary step of asking to be banned from sanctioning Gamergate violations and was then forced to resign from his elected post and abandon Wikipedia.
Last year, Gamergate launched an operation aimed at silencing five feminist Wikipedians. In an infamous decision, Wikipedia gave Gamergate everything they asked. Unsatisfied, Gamergate launched a new operation targeting Gamaliel (and me, but I was a very secondary target). Amazingly, Wikipedia fell for it again.
In an astonishing turn of events, Trump supporters brought a case against Gamaliel for publishing, as editor of a Wikipedia newsletter, an April Fool’s Day joke headline regarding Donald Trump’s small hands. Was this a blatant violation of Wikipedia’s libel policy? Of course not. Graydon Carter’s famous Spy Magazine profile called Trump “a short-fingered vulgarian” back in 1988. Marco Rubio talked about Trump’s “small hands” in a February 29 speech, which Trump discussed in embarrassing depth with the Washington Post. The New Yorker put Trump’s small hands on its cover.
(The same editors who started this mess also claimed that membership in that notoriously radical organization, the Democratic Party, was incompatible with Wikipedia’s vaunted neutrality.)
Did Wikipedia stand up for their volunteer, who was facing harassment over a Trumped-up case, and who had been silenced by threats to his livelihood? No: they admonished him and forced him to resign from the committee. After ten years and 74,912 edits to the encyclopedia, Gamaliel has been effectively removed from the project.
Opposition Research
Gamaliel has recently been the subject of at least one death threat related to Gamergate, and Gamergate boards are rife with sexual innuendo and opposition research directed at him.
Elsewhere, Gamergate is making great strides. For example, the infamous harassment of Alison Rapp has been scrubbed from Wikipedia’s history of Gamergate. Gamergate believed (incorrectly) that Rapp, a Nintendo marketing employee, had deemphasized some sexual elements in American versions of Nintendo games. A sophisticated opposition research operation pored over Rapp’s student essays, ancient Twitter discussions, and photographs. They put together allegations of sexual impropriety and ultimately convinced Nintendo to dismiss her. Her husband — a barrista at a Nintendo office — lost his job as well.
The harassers used Wikipedia talk pages to publicize rumors and allegations about Rapp when they were seeking her dismissal. The harassment having succeeded, mentioning the harassment in Wikipedia no longer serves Gamergate’s purpose and – voila! – the episode has been expunged from the encyclopedia.
What is Going On?
That a group of anonymous trolls might plan a campaign of extortion against a Wikipedia arbitrator is dismaying. That Wikipedia is willing to accept the harassment and to acquiesce in extortion is shocking, even to a writer who has a low opinion of Wikipedia.
In recent months, two Wikipedia trustees – one a popular community representative – have been forced to resign. Then, the executive director was forced out. Now, a newly-elected arbitrator elected on an anti-harassment platform has been forced to resign, after he was targeted by the harassers he had sought to rein in.
What Is To Be Done
The only defense against routine extortion is, in the end, defiance. Wikipedia chose to appease the extortionists; that makes them part of the problem.
What actually happened on Wikipedia: anti-GGers fighting to include Rapp sob story, Rapp revealed to be a whore, section removed for BLP reasons as Mark and others cry to get it put back.
Mark's "hasty notes" turned out to be a massive mound of salt about Donald Trump, Alison Rapp, Gamergate, and Wikipedia. http://archive.is/QKcg5
Reprehensible
Suddenly, political violence is once more an immediate concern. Trump rallies are incendiary, and Trump’s bizarre denunciations of judges on racial and religious grounds light other fires. Once we accept violence in politics, it will be incredibly hard to return to a sane and livable world.
At the same time, the internet is threatened by a wave of politically-inspired extortion.
Gamergate has discovered a valuable new tactic: they can force opponents to acquiesce in their schemes by using opposition research to threaten them, their families, and their jobs. The proving ground has been Wikipedia; if it works there – and at the moment it’s working well — it will spread throughout what remains of the open, non-corporate Web. Gamergate itself was a juvenile conspiracy of trolls, but their success has now inspired large and capable right-wing operations across the globe.
Widespread extortion is a threat to civil society and to a free internet.
The situation is especially dire at Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that “anyone can edit.” Once the threat of opposition research becomes established, no responsible person will dare defy the extortionists. Responsible people – especially teachers – now edit at grave risk to their careers. Encouraging students to edit, once a widespread practice, exposes them to anti-semitism, sexual harassment, and extortion.
The “Gamaliel” Case
Gamergate and its Trumpeter allies have forced reform administrator “Gamaliel” – elected last December to the Arbitration Committee (the supreme authority for Wiki governance) on an anti-harassment platform – to accede to their ongoing assault on Wikipedia. Gamaliel works as a librarian at a Catholic university in the United States. Gamergate thought he was a thorn in their side. To silence a perceived critic, Gamergate supporters wrote to his employer, threatening to tie the school to child abuse. In the wake of these threats, Gamaliel was forced to take the extraordinary step of asking to be banned from sanctioning Gamergate violations and was then forced to resign from his elected post and abandon Wikipedia.
Last year, Gamergate launched an operation aimed at silencing five feminist Wikipedians. In an infamous decision, Wikipedia gave Gamergate everything they asked. Unsatisfied, Gamergate launched a new operation targeting Gamaliel (and me, but I was a very secondary target). Amazingly, Wikipedia fell for it again.
In an astonishing turn of events, Trump supporters brought a case against Gamaliel for publishing, as editor of a Wikipedia newsletter, an April Fool’s Day joke headline regarding Donald Trump’s small hands. Was this a blatant violation of Wikipedia’s libel policy? Of course not. Graydon Carter’s famous Spy Magazine profile called Trump “a short-fingered vulgarian” back in 1988. Marco Rubio talked about Trump’s “small hands” in a February 29 speech, which Trump discussed in embarrassing depth with the Washington Post. The New Yorker put Trump’s small hands on its cover.
(The same editors who started this mess also claimed that membership in that notoriously radical organization, the Democratic Party, was incompatible with Wikipedia’s vaunted neutrality.)
Did Wikipedia stand up for their volunteer, who was facing harassment over a Trumped-up case, and who had been silenced by threats to his livelihood? No: they admonished him and forced him to resign from the committee. After ten years and 74,912 edits to the encyclopedia, Gamaliel has been effectively removed from the project.
Opposition Research
Gamaliel has recently been the subject of at least one death threat related to Gamergate, and Gamergate boards are rife with sexual innuendo and opposition research directed at him.
Elsewhere, Gamergate is making great strides. For example, the infamous harassment of Alison Rapp has been scrubbed from Wikipedia’s history of Gamergate. Gamergate believed (incorrectly) that Rapp, a Nintendo marketing employee, had deemphasized some sexual elements in American versions of Nintendo games. A sophisticated opposition research operation pored over Rapp’s student essays, ancient Twitter discussions, and photographs. They put together allegations of sexual impropriety and ultimately convinced Nintendo to dismiss her. Her husband — a barrista at a Nintendo office — lost his job as well.
The harassers used Wikipedia talk pages to publicize rumors and allegations about Rapp when they were seeking her dismissal. The harassment having succeeded, mentioning the harassment in Wikipedia no longer serves Gamergate’s purpose and – voila! – the episode has been expunged from the encyclopedia.
What is Going On?
That a group of anonymous trolls might plan a campaign of extortion against a Wikipedia arbitrator is dismaying. That Wikipedia is willing to accept the harassment and to acquiesce in extortion is shocking, even to a writer who has a low opinion of Wikipedia.
In recent months, two Wikipedia trustees – one a popular community representative – have been forced to resign. Then, the executive director was forced out. Now, a newly-elected arbitrator elected on an anti-harassment platform has been forced to resign, after he was targeted by the harassers he had sought to rein in.
What Is To Be Done
The only defense against routine extortion is, in the end, defiance. Wikipedia chose to appease the extortionists; that makes them part of the problem.
- Take great care when editing Wikipedia. Understand that if you edit, even anonymously, shadowy right-wing networks may track you down and do their best to destroy you.
- Never give your Wikipedia user name and password to anyone else, even if you never use them. Gamergate, the Trump-eters, and a network of Russian trolls all collect disused accounts, which they refurbish and weaponize.
- Urge Google and other search providers to use Wikipedia content with care, and to avoid promoting Wikipedia in search results. Avoid linking to Wikipedia.
- Support regulatory and legislative reform. One leader in this area is Massachusetts Congresswoman Katherine Clark; if you know of others – especially EU legislators – let me know. Clark will shortly introduce legislation to clarify that internet “sextortion” is a crime; this is a very important starting point for the defense of the free internet.
What actually happened on Wikipedia: anti-GGers fighting to include Rapp sob story, Rapp revealed to be a whore, section removed for BLP reasons as Mark and others cry to get it put back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gamergate_controversy/Archive_52#BLP_and_redaction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gamergate_controversy/Archive_52#Removal_of_paragraph_on_Rapp
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What a bunch of hysteria. I'm sure any ArbCom members who read this would barely recognize what actually happened in the Gamaliel RfA from this hysterical mass of delusional logorrhea.
This guy seriously needs psychiatric help.
If he's indef banned, what your over/under on him committing suicide?
Pretty sure it higher than with Ryulong.
Also, has he ever mentioned us and this thread in particular at any point? Haven't noticed it while skimming the thread, but I'm sure some ween must have told him by now.
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He'll just do what everyone does- make an alt and start over.
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He's too narcissistic to do that because he thinks he's incredibly important.
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OF COURSE GG KNEW BECAUSE THEY KNOW ALL AND THEY ARE AN EVIL RIGHTWING CABAL THATS TRYING TO GET RID OF WOMEN IN VIDEO GAMES REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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This guy acts like Allison Rapp was the project lead for a huge franchise like GTA or Fallout. She was a low level PR whore who had no relation to games/tech whatsoever other than shilling them on Twitter.
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Oh shit.
He does actually have a minor point here, although he clearly doesn't know the underlying facts. When we did an archive.is on the Rapp prostitution page, it had already been archived months before, so clearly someone knew about it well before we did (unless someone here is not spilling). It was also the kind of person who uses archive.is which is not unique to GG-related people but is pretty common for people involved in controversies who are used to people deleting everything.
Someone was hoarding cocks. Whether to dump them at some opportune time (which may be what happened) or for some other reason, we don't know.
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I love when people value follower count so much. They hate when you point out how much better of a person (insert popular shitlord here) is since they have 10x the followers.Oh shit.
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In the age before social media, Mark Bernstein would've been one of those crazy people calling in to Coast to Coast AM telling Art Bell how the cashier at the gas station has been replaced by a lizard person and only he can stop it.
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Geeze that word salad he spewed out is so full of half truths and pure bullshit that I have to assume that old Marky has blown a gasket.
Yes he's totally pissed that Wiki has blocked and shunned him but his view of the events that caused this is 100% fucked up. He's imaging enemies everywhere in a convoluted conspiracy to attack him when in reality it was his own fault he ignored all reason and went all Ryulong on the issue and wouldn't see compromise.
I'm looking forward to much more salt from old Marky as his buddies in the Wiki get weeded out one by one. The whole point to Wiki is to be a neutral viewpoint on issues not a platform for nut cases to push their agendas.
Yes he's totally pissed that Wiki has blocked and shunned him but his view of the events that caused this is 100% fucked up. He's imaging enemies everywhere in a convoluted conspiracy to attack him when in reality it was his own fault he ignored all reason and went all Ryulong on the issue and wouldn't see compromise.
I'm looking forward to much more salt from old Marky as his buddies in the Wiki get weeded out one by one. The whole point to Wiki is to be a neutral viewpoint on issues not a platform for nut cases to push their agendas.
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His indefinite ban will be a glorious salt tsunami, and his thread is much shorter than Ryulong's, but he's already gunning for surpassing him in crazy.
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Give him time and perhaps he'll truly become the master! He's pretty consistently bumped to the first page already so, there's a possibility!
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I have fifty Twitter followers so I'm like, ten times the authority of that other guy.
Get help Mark.
Get help Mark.
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That's really the best part. Any attempt to use an alt would fail miserably because he can't help but shout from the mountains that the great Mark Bernstein is weighing in on whatever issue. Even if he could somehow restrain himself, he'd be posting on Twitter about the exact same shit his alt happened to be doing at the time, easily revealing the account before it met the 500/30 rule necessary to have any input on gamergate-related topics.
For awhile I thought the mental health angle was just hyperbole, but now I think it's clear that a break from the internet is the only thing that could help Mark. Although I suppose you could say that about most lolcows.
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He forgot to say 'Milady'! How's she supposed to know who to pat on the head if he doesn't say 'Milady'?