SXSW isn’t supposed to be a tech conference, dammit. From its inception, it was always meant to be a music festival, dammit, and it’s a good one. But in recent years, it’s expanded its coverage to include movies and technology. Being the biggest con in town, SXSW frequently gets a ton of local coverage, but usually not an above-the-fold front-page story in the Austin American Statemen describing how the conference shit the bed (electronic version).
On Wednesday night, SXSW became the latest large tech organization to not fully understand the GamerGate controversy, and therefore fundamentally screw it up. This has been an all-too-frequent occurrence, with Intel’s $300M mea culpa being, of course, the most noteworthy example. SXSW’s clusterfuck began on Wednesday night, attempting to play Solomon with two GamerGate-adjacent panels on their docket, cancelling both due to security concerns.
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