GUEST POST by Seattle4Truth
The UN Dispatch recently released a hysterical article which wailed about an evil cabal of ‘conservative conspiracy theorists’ who had exposed their plans to censor the internet. They cried moar about how the atrocious conservatives at Breitbart were cheering proponents of GamerGate on as we obliterated their plans to gather case-studies to cherry pick by gloriously crashing their #TakeBackTheTech party — a party they had been meticulously planning with much effort and deliberation for over a month.
Here’s a little taste of the delicious truffle salt synthesized by Mr. David Sullivan over at the UN Dispatch in his article titled #GamerGate vs the United Nations:
The next generation of conservative conspiracy theorists is raising the specter of a UN plot to control the Internet. This time, conservative media are cheerleading trolling by agitators associated with the online harassment campaign against women in technology and feminist critics of gaming culture, known by the hashtag #gamergate. Their latest targets concern a report on cyber-violence against women and girls by the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development, which has spread to an attack on the Internet Governance Forum and the work of vital civil society organization the Association for Progressive Communications.
The line of attacks is so spectacularly misguided it would be laughable, were it not for the deadly seriousness of the issue.
So why was this Sullivan guy so quick to rabidly defend the IGF? Turns out, he’s done a lot of work for them in the past, and completely failed to disclose it in his article.
Actually, it’s about ethics in UN journalism.
The story actually goes a lot deeper than meets the eye — and the hypocrisy is palpable. For the whole scoop, check out this 10 minute video which is fresh off the render-press:
