It's to the best of our knowledge.

I'm Anne Strain Champs.

Why is the internet such a toxic place for women?

I was out with friends in San Francisco,

and my phone just started vibrating on the table constantly.

This is Zoe Quinn. She's a game designer.

I just saw a flood of notifications come in.

People were talking about what a whore I was,

and people were talking about putting dead animals in my mailbox,

and it just kept speeding up.

Like how you count times between thunderclaps to sort of tell what the storm is.

All I could do is sort of stare numbly at my phone.

Someone's like, your ex just posted like all this crazy stuff on this forum and it got deleted almost immediately, but I thought you should know and I'm like, oh god, what?

This was an abusive ex-boyfriend that I had just finally cut out of my life. He knew exactly how to engineer it.

They were finding out the home addresses of my friends,

compiling a dossier and saying, you know,

let's burn her to the ground, Wikipedia,

editing my time of death to my next scheduled public appearance.

It basically went straight to the rape and death threats

and continued, unabated for weeks and months and now years.

Nobody should have to experience anything like that, and yet, increasingly, women do.

Zoe Quinn's case is famous. It's what came to be known as Gamergate. But this kind of

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