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Bad People

72. Gamergate: What is doxxing?

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In 2014 the ex-partner of video game maker Zoe Quinn released an online essay with intimate details of their relationship and breakup. The story takes on a life of its own when internet trolls start referencing it in misogynistic conspiracy theories posted on online forums. Soon Quinn is bombarded with serious threats of real world violence. When details of where she lives circulate, she flees her home. Quinn was only the beginning as the harassments spread to others who were advocating for an inclusive gaming industry. On this episode of Bad People, Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen share their own experience of having an online presence and discuss what online harassment really is and who is behind it. Whose responsibility is it to make the online World safe? The episode contains audio from BBC News. Warning: This episode contains descriptions of terrorism, threats of sexual violence and online abuse. CREDITS Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen Producer: Louisa Field Editor: Anna Lacey and Rami Tzabar Music: Matt Chandler The Open University: Dr Sarah Laurence and Dr Ailsa Strathie Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland #BadPeople_BBC Bad People is produced in partnership with The Open University and is a BBC Audio Science Production for BBC Sounds.

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0:38.0

Sophie, what is one of the most ludicrous things that someone has said to you or about you online?

0:45.5

I mean, I get daily abuse, and that's of course ludicrous.

0:49.4

But the one thing that really stuck out to me recently is that there's a very specific group of people

0:56.7

on a very specific message board on the internet who are obsessed with their idea that I am lying about where I live,

1:06.1

like in the type of flat that I live in.

1:08.8

So whenever I talk about where I live, I describe it as, you know, a small flat because it is.

1:13.8

And all these people keep being like, she's lying, she's lying about the small flat because she has like five bathrooms.

1:21.5

And that was so confusing to me until I realized that I post,

1:25.0

I often take photos of myself in the mirror whenever I'm in a hotel, like in the bathroom mirror.

1:30.9

So every time I'm in a hotel and I take a photo in the bathroom, they're like,

1:35.7

another bathroom.

1:37.8

And that's why these people think that I have one living room, one kitchen, one bedroom, and four hundred bathrooms.

1:45.0

Like, it's so weird.

1:48.7

On this episode, what is doxing?

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