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by Karunamon 3927 days ago
Thing is, it's hard to not to get the wrong idea. All the people complaining the loudest about Gamergate have serious media connections.

Unchallenged falsehoods in multiple media outlets -> Sourced by Wikipedia per their usual secondary source rules -> Shows up on the front page of Google where most normal people will see it.

You actually have to have an interest in this stuff and actually dig to see that the narrative is false/misleading.

igreulich is correct - the name has been very successfully tarnished. Problem is, moving on to something else is a move that has zero benefit (because the same problems would just happen again under any new name), so the hivemind wisely decided to stay put.