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ResetEra, a gaming forum, has banned all promotional content for Harry Potter games

Posted by DanBC
Tags: transgender, transphobia, uplifting, trans rights, harry potter, video games, jk rowling, troy leavitt, resetera, author.jason schreier, source.twitter
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1364386001339248641?s=20
@Jason Schreier:
ResetEra, one of the largest video game forums, is enacting "a total ban on threads for promotional media" from the new Harry Potter game in the wake of JK Rowling's transphobic views and the recent discovery that one of the game's lead designers is a pro-Gamergate YouTuber pic.twitter.com/D5Wpoi4WpM

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  1. DanBC
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    I'm posting this to ~lgbt because the discussion is nicer here, and there's more understanding that platforming hate causes harm. I feel like there's also more understanding of the radicalisation...

    I'm posting this to ~lgbt because the discussion is nicer here, and there's more understanding that platforming hate causes harm. I feel like there's also more understanding of the radicalisation pathway by which people who start out without transphobic views are recruited into extremist anti-trans organisations.

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