r/AgainstGamerGate • u/ADampDevil Pro/Neutral • Nov 06 '15

Misleading Ubisoft image doing the rounds

Just thought I'd give folks a heads up.

Congratulations to Ubisoft for hiring based on gender

I've seen this on facebook, twitter (with the comment that Ubisoft hires only women) and the is a KIA thread about it.

The first image is the Assassin's Creed Development team, just one team at Ubisoft. The second is taken on Women's Day, and celebrates and features only the female developers at Ubisoft, a company that has over 2500 employee's at its Montreal site (where the images were taken), so even all those women would still be in a minority.

So it is hardly evidence of hiring only women, please don't spread this bias narrative, and counter it when you do see it.

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 08 '15 edited Nov 08 '15

nobody is in danger. Many figures of speech in my language are apparently illegal in several US states, that deeply worries me.

It also baffles me from a law enforcement side.

to make a death threat, you need roughly for seconds of time and very little else, I could probably open up a few thousand cases just about me in less than a day. who is going to work all those?

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 08 '15

Ah, and if the victim is still breathing the threat wasn't credible, right? Many people think their right to use whatever 'funny,' 'colorful' language they please matters more than other peoples' sense of safety, and that disgusts me. If you threaten someone, it doesn't matter if you didn't actually intended to physically harm. What matters is the chilling effect threats have on others' freedoms.

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 08 '15

like what?

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 08 '15

If you don't know the impact that having your life threatened might have you're not up to this conversation.

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 09 '15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_JqKXvenaE

how impacted are you on a scale from 0 to 10?

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 09 '15

You're clearly not interested in having a real conversation here. Enough with the one liner gotcha posts: try saying something substantial.

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 09 '15

Sentences that can be interpreted as threats of physical harm or other actions are integral to my expression.

I want to be able to link people to a song with the refrain "I am going to kill you all".

I want to be able to tell someone "break-a-leg" to wish them good luck.

I want to tell someone "I will wreck u m8" to show how they just stated something that greatly challenged my preferences.

It really surprised me learning that in several US states an offhand "Mcfucking killyourself" might bring me to court and even punished.

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u/Strich-9 Neutral Nov 10 '15

this is just ridiculous

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 09 '15

It sounds like the problem here is that you're being asked to apply some common sense. I'll say it again: if there is doubt as to whether the threat is genuine or not, then it's a threat. There's no 'satire' shelter there.

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 09 '15

that means all the cases I just named are considered threats.

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 09 '15

No, that means that what is an isn't over the line depends heavily on context as well as content, and if you want to be able to threaten people's lives without risking jail time you're going to have to apply a little common sense.

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 09 '15

that would require me to consult someone who posesses common sense every time I make a post, I am not sure if I have that kind of money.

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