Crises like the Mirai botnet can't be prevented by vague calls to protect our cybernetworks or platitudes about working with private industry. We need to be able to force recalls on consumer devices with massive security vulnerabilities.

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

We need to introduce civil liability for companies that ship products with reckless security vulnerabilities.

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.

There's a common personality type to software developers - one I certainly fall into. We're more comfortable staring at a screen than staring into someone's eyes. Engineers can be brilliant in the workplace, and something less-than-brilliant everywhere else.

Before I ran for office, I ran a game studio.

The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.

Justice for all does not apply when women use the Internet.

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.