Quotes from Brianna Wu

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.

The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems.

Gamergate gave birth to a new kind of celebrity troll, men who made money and built their careers by destroying women's reputations.

To its credit, Twitter is at least making an effort to curb hate speech towards transgender people, training its staff how to respond.

Prosecuting Gamergate is not about justice for me or the women of Giant Spacekat. It's about introducing consequences into the equation for men that treat harassing women like a game.

We need to invest in telecommunication infrastructure with redundancies to combat denial of service attacks.

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.

I look at my own party, and I see that we've taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked - and I don't know what else to do other than get involved myself.

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.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.

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.

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.

Gamergate isn't the problem - it's a symptom of an industry that is deeply sexist and unable to understand it.

I have an unfortunate history with Ethan Ralph. Like many women in the game industry, I've been doxed by him multiple times.

To stand up to GamerGate, that's my choice. I can't make that choice for the women I work with.

I don't regret standing up to Gamergate at all.

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.

I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that's an industry leader in making games for women. We are passionate about creating narrative games for the avalanche of new consumers who don't fit the old gamer stereotype.

I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.

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.

In stopping Gamergate, the men who dominate it - not just women - must address the culture that created Gamergate.

Gamergate is a criminal operation to harass women.

The real question is whether or not the communities that rule the Internet can make their spaces safer for users, especially women and minorities.