DeepFreeze

DeepFreeze

Tracking ethical violations in games journalism

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What do you think? …

Zac Davies
"DeepFreeze has been created and is maintained by people supporting the GamerGate revolt" Yeah nah.
Sam Houston
@zacdavies Yeah, I would love to know why a GamerGate page was submitted by @_jacksmith
Jack Smith
@zacdavies @samhouston why not? seemed like an interesting project and I found some of the stories insightful.
Sam Houston
@zacdavies @_jacksmith Because Gamergate is really just about shaming and attacking journalists (and others) that discuss and fight for equality in the video game industry and within the games themselves. A website that names journalists and attacks them for what they write about isn't really appropriate IMHO.
Jack Smith
@zacdavies @samhouston sure. I'm aware of the different issues that exist for both sides. But as someone who hasn't looked at this topic very much; I think that the mission statement of the site makes it an interesting resource: "DeepFreeze strives, whenever possible, for maximum objectivity — supplying factual information so that readers can form an opinion on their own" I found it quite interesting looking through some of the examples and liked that they mainly just linked to factually sources. In some cases the articles in question later had apologies issued when the issues were brought to light: