Gamergate has grown into a hate group that threatens the stability of the $60 billion a year game industry.

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.

It's sad when 'Grand Theft Auto' has more consequences for criminal behavior than real life.

The BBC called me 'defiant' in a caption. I plan to frame and put it on my wall.

Ordinarily, I develop videogames with female characters that aren't girlfriends, bimbos and sidekicks.

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

If you don't know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.

Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.

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.

My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it's a muscle that can do no more.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

If you're fortunate enough not to know, Gamergate is the misogynist hate group of the video game world.

For a hate group originally focused on video games, anger over a comedy movie for starring women might seem ridiculous. But at its core, Gamergate is about a toxic male sense of ownership over geek culture.

Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.

With major films costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, Hollywood is an industry that tends to repeat patterns when they make money.

Walking is great, I guess.

Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity.

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

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?

Gamergate was the proto-alt right.

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.

For me, especially running for office, being on Twitter is a fundamental part of my job.

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.

I think there is a war on women in technology.

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.

Anyone can go to 8chan, a website entirely for Gamergaters. You can read what they post about me and other women. It's not just casual sexism, it's angry, violent sexism.

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.

Unfortunately, I have the equivalent of 7 PhDs in harassment on Twitter. As one of the primary targets of Gamergate, I've had hundreds and hundreds of threats to my life on Twitter's platform.

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

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.

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

It is not a secret that I am a feminist and I have more liberal views and a lot of these GamerGaters have more right-wing views.

There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.

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

The cost of speaking out is so high for women, I understand why most decide not to.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

Gamergate taught me that I was stronger than I knew that I was.

Gamergate is a criminal operation to harass women.

There are some men that are very threatened by the fact that women play games nowadays.

My big lesson from Gamergate is asking the men in charge to do the right thing does not work. So we need women, we need people of color in positions of power not just in the game industry but at social media and tech companies and in Congress.

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.

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.

I was adopted into an extremely right-wing religious family.

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.

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.

In politics, I am facing a lot of structural sexism.

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.

I've rarely talked about Obama's share of the blame for the rise of the alt-right and Gamergate.

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.

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.