Brianna Wu Quotes

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There's a common misconception about running for office

There’s a common misconception about running for office. People think it’s dreadful, morally compromising work. But I’ve found the opposite is true. It made a better person and a better feminist. It forced me to take a hard look at my shortcomings.
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For most of 2016 and 2017, I would say probably 90% of my Twitter feed was automated bots sending repetitive messages at me. Someone would basically pay bots to send me messages over and over and over again. It made Twitter nearly unusable.
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The truth is, the sexist behaviour that really holds women in games back doesn’t come from the moustache-twirling cartoon villains of Gamergate. It’s the sexist hiring practices of our journalistic institutions. It’s the consistently over-sexualised designs we see.
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Competition in the American tech sector is being gobbled up by the largest players, and it’s threatening our entire industry.
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Gamergate is a criminal operation to harass women.
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The public will forgive you almost anything if you’re honest about it.
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To its credit, Twitter is at least making an effort to curb hate speech towards transgender people, training its staff how to respond.
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There’s a real sense – that we have to get past on the left – that every person who voted for Trump is evil.
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Gamergate is ostensibly about journalistic ethics. Supporters say they want to address conflicts of interest between the people that make games and the people that support them. In reality, Gamergate is a group of gamers that are willing to destroy the women who have invaded their clubhouse.
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The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems.
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Gamergate should have been a time of reckoning for the gaming community, which had long been rife with sexism and misogyny. It wasn’t.
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Gamergate isn’t the problem – it’s a symptom of an industry that is deeply sexist and unable to understand it.
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Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity.
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It doesn’t matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women’s voices will never be heard.
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Facebook, Apple, Tinder, Snapchat, and Google create our social realities – how we make friends, how we get jobs, and how mankind interacts. And the truth is, women don’t truly have a seat at the table.
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What’s the fundamental problem that VR solves better than anything? To me it’s straightforward. It’s story. VR tells stories better than any medium.
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I’ve spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.
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Before I ran for office, I ran a game studio.
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In software engineering, we have the term ‘technical debt.’ When you don’t do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.
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If you don’t know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.
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The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That’s fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
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The real question is whether or not the communities that rule the Internet can make their spaces safer for users, especially women and minorities.
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I don’t want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.
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I think what a lot of women in the game industry saw with Gamergate is they saw if they came forward, help was not going to come.
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Since Gamergate, many women I know are reluctant to speak publicly on gender issues, because they fearrightly – that they will be targeted and harassed.
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A lot of people don’t know this about me but actually I started in politics.
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Gamergate was the proto-alt right.
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Gamergate gave birth to a new kind of celebrity troll, men who made money and built their careers by destroying women’s reputations.
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If you’re fortunate enough not to know, Gamergate is the misogynist hate group of the video game world.
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I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I’m on the right side.
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My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it’s a muscle that can do no more.
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I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.
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With major films costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, Hollywood is an industry that tends to repeat patterns when they make money.
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The video game industry traditionally has been a very male-dominated field. You know, with the advent of the iPhone, the number of women gamers exploded.
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Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a journalist, so that’s something that I take very seriously.
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For any prosecutor, a decision to show leniency in sentencing must be weighed against multiple factors. Do they show remorse for their actions? Are they a threat to the public and law enforcement? Do they intend to contribute to society?
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Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.
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I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.
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Let’s not glamorize abuse.
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It’s not like I’m advocating that we ban ‘Call of Duty‘ or anything silly like that, I’m asking is for companies to look at their hiring practices, to hire more women… and make sure they portray women in their games in a socially responsible way.
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The cost of speaking out is so high for women, I understand why most decide not to.
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In some ways, the real damage of Gamergate is pushing the public’s idea of sexism so far to the extreme, that changes in the professional sphere seem unimportant.
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I think Gamergate is just a symptom of a disease: a $90 billion global industry that was built by men for men.
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We need to introduce civil liability for companies that ship products with reckless security vulnerabilities.
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There’s a common personality type to software developers – one I certainly fall into. We’re more comfortable staring at a screen than staring into someone‘s eyes. Engineers can be brilliant in the workplace, and something less-than-brilliant everywhere else.
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To stand up to GamerGate, that’s my choice. I can’t make that choice for the women I work with.
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I’m a reasonably accomplished journalist. I’ve worked as an investigative journalist, I’ve done crime beat stuff.
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Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.
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With my company, Giant Spacekat, I was very angry about the lack of games that portrayed women positively in the video game industry, so I launched my own studio, gave a lot of very talented women jobs, and we made some of the most awesome, empowering games in the business.
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The Democratic Party tends to have this hypereducated ruling-class mentality, and we need to realize that’s not making us connect with a lot of voters.
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I am a programmer. If I write code, I don’t evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I evaluate it by what happens when I compile it. I evaluate it by results.
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I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and it took me getting out into the real world and understanding what I faced as a woman in my career to really open up my eyes.
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I don’t regret standing up to Gamergate at all.
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When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.
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We need to invest in telecommunication infrastructure with redundancies to combat denial of service attacks.
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There are some men that are very threatened by the fact that women play games nowadays.
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Justice for all does not apply when women use the Internet.
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It’s see no evil, hear no evil with toxic male gamers – whose every whim and adolescent fantasy has been catered to for decades.
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Gamergate taught me that I was stronger than I knew that I was.
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In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill.
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Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I’ve been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, ‘Final Fantasy,’ ‘Dragon Warrior‘ and ‘Super Mariooffered a lifeboat.
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I think there is a war on women in technology.
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For me, especially running for office, being on Twitter is a fundamental part of my job.
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The main thing Twitter needs to focus on are implementing its rules more uniformly. If outing a transgender woman is against Twitter’s rules, that needs to be implemented every time.
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The BBC called me ‘defiant’ in a caption. I plan to frame and put it on my wall.
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