FBI Helps Victims of Gamergate - Who's Helping You?

Recently the FBI has found grounds to investigate the online and offline attacks against and Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian. According to NPR:

Online trolls have long attacked women in the video game industry. But during #Gamergate, it's gotten so bad that two women left their homes because they feared for their own safety, and the FBI has said that it will look into the harassment of game developers.

See http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/24/349835297/-gamergate-controversy-fuels-debate-on-women-and-video-games.

This appears to have started from Eron Gjoni's decision to publicly break up with Zoe Quinn. Ironically, his posts arguably started things:

http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/

However, he claims he has been misrepresented as well:

http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/2eedf9/cmv_reddits_handling_of_the_zoe_quinn_conspiracy/

His decision to put these issues online may be legal but is definitely controversial. All this is drawing attention not only in the US but also abroad. A United Kingdom site has an article here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11082629/Gamergate-Misogyny-death-threats-and-a-mob-of-angry-trolls-Inside-the-dark-world-of-video-games.html

Furthermore, Anita Sarkeesian's awards ceremony hosts received bomb threats.

See http://www.newsweek.com/feminist-video-game-critic-receives-bomb-threats-award-ceremony-271557

Regardless of whether you think Ms. Sarkeesian or Quinn deserves accolades or criticism, the stalking and death threats that they, their family, and their friends have received are clearly wrong. Not only that, at least in America, these cowardly actions are illegal.

Stalking and harassment cases are simple to understand but complex to unravel. Because these women have high profiles in the gaming industry, they have the FBI helping them.

If you are stalked, who will help you?

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