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Alex Lifschitz
Crash Override Network was a support group for victims of large scale online abuse, including revenge porn and doxing. History Crash Override was founded by game developers Zoë Quinn and Alex Lifschitz, and was staffed exclusively by victims of online abuse whose identities were kept anonymous outside the group. Quinn and Lifschitz were subjected to online abuse during the Gamergate (harassment campaign), Gamergate harassment campaign, with both receiving death threats and being doxxed. Crash Override formed a partnership with Feminist Frequency in March 2016, which served as its financial sponsor. From December 2016, Crash Override's hotline was closed. Some time in 2018, Crash Override closed fully, and "passed the torch to other organisations". Mission The founders of Crash Override consider it a conversation starter, a repository for addressing problems that others in and out of the gaming community "have long hoped would simply go away." The organisation's services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoë Quinn
Zoë Tiberius Quinn (born 1987) is an American video game developer, programmer, and writer. Quinn developed the interactive fiction game ''Depression Quest'', which was released in 2013. In 2014, a defamatory blog post by their ex-boyfriend sparked the online harassment campaign known as Gamergate, during which Quinn was subjected to extensive harassment including doxing, rape threats, and death threats. The following year, Quinn co-founded Crash Override, a crisis hotline and resource center for victims of online harassment. Early life Zoë Tiberius Quinn was born in 1987 and was raised in a small town near the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Growing up, Quinn's favorite video game was '' Commander Keen'', an MS-DOS game featuring an eight-year-old protagonist who builds a spaceship with items found around his house and then travels the galaxy defending the Earth. Quinn suffered from depression as a teenager, having been diagnosed with the condition at age 14. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |