Month: December 2020

Do You Think Video Games Cause Mass Shootings?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

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Do You Think Video Games Cause Mass Shootings? (How Steve Bannon Poisoned Gaming)

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Right-Wing Hate Groups Are Recruiting Video Gamers

We Can Win Gamers Over to Socialism

How video games are fuelling the rise of the far right

The FBI has released its Gamergate investigation records

White supremacists are trying to recruit American teens through video games

IGE

The Decline and Fall of an Ultra Rich Online Gaming Empire

Steve Bannon Learned to Harness Troll Army From World of Warcraft

Chinese Discrimination in WOW

Anti-Chinese discrimination in WoW

Chinese WOW players speak out

Milo Yiannopoulos

Milo Yiannopoulos named marshal for ‘Straight Pride’ parade

Australia Bans Ex-Breitbart Writer Milo Yiannopoulos After Mosque Attack Hate Dig

Yiannopoulos Quits Breitbart, Apologizes for Uproar Over Year-Old Comments

Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

Here’s How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream

Milo Yiannopoulos Blocked From Speaking At UC Berkeley By Violent Protests

Couple charged in shooting of protester at Milo Yiannopoulos event in Seattle

Milo Yiannopoulos On Pedophilia And ‘This Arbitrary And Oppressive Idea Of Consent’

Additional Sources:

The Alt-Right as Counterculture: Memes, Video Games and Violence

How Steve Bannon Mined ‘Intense Young Men,’ From ‘World of Warcraft’ to the White House

Steve Bannon Saw the ‘Monster Power’ of Angry Gamers While Farming Gold in World of Warcraft

Stephen Bannon once guided a global firm that made millions helping gamers cheat

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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under national security law

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under national security law

HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Hong Kong democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been charged under the city’s national security law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces and endangering national security, local media reported on Friday (Dec 11), citing a police source.

Related:

Jimmy Lai denied bail, may be detained till April given risks of fleeing HK and Other HK News

Will the New U.S. Trade Rep Be Hobbled by Lobbyists?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Will the New U.S. Trade Rep Be Hobbled by Lobbyists?

Tai could represent a new era in Democratic trade policy, replacing both “free trade” scams on one flank, and the incoherent economic nationalism of Donald Trump on the other, with careful, substantive policy that serves America’s economic interest.

But the way these things work, Tai is at risk of having corporate types imposed just below her, in the key deputy USTR slots. There is a revolving door between USTR and powerful corporations, notably Big Tech companies, which have much to gain or lose from trade deals. As I’ve written, the next round of trade deals will resolve significant questions about e-commerce, privacy, the use of algorithms, and much more.

Related:

Joe Biden’s US trade chief pick ‘unmatched’ on China issues, would not be soft on Beijing

[Clete] Willems said she would “share Lighthizer’s hawkishness on China and has a tonne of direct background on China’s industrial policy from her days at USTR”, adding that “having someone who can directly converse with China in their own language is going to command respect”.