As stated in the section highlighed, GamerGaters are prone to being doxxed and threatened. Thus, throwaway accounts are advised if you are in a position in which you would be made vulnerable by such actions. As linked below, a few prominant people were doxxed. Most recently https://twitter.com/Int_Aristocrat was doxxed and is being called at his real life place of work. In actuality the call is for more security and unlinked accounts to allow for people to voice their word without fear of doxxing.
On Monday, 6 October 2014 13:12:12 UTC+1, sytse wrote: > > Dear GitLab friends, (/cc GitLab-core) > > I feel very uncomfortable with the whole situation. The repo itself seems > to call for boycotts (which is something people are free to do). But some > instructions in the repo are for twitter and email spam via throwaway > accounts, for example > gamergate/blob/master/Twitter%20Flooding%20Instructions.md > "Make a cock.li/Gmail throwaway email address if you don't want your new > Twitter account to be linked to your main email address. > Create your new Twitter account, using your new email address if > appropriate. Also make sure to choose a Twitter username not associated > with any of your other accounts, to reduce doxxing risks." > > The worst thing is that there seems to be systematic harassment of people > (especially women) by this campaign. If so this is terrible and something > that we absolutely condone. But I'm not sure what happened or if this is > related to this repo so this didn't factor into our decision making. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/714f8596-9c4f-4edf-a164-eaddfb38cd27%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
