When those around you aren't willing to take a stand for what's right, sometimes you have to be the one to strike first.
As some of you may be aware, there's an issue involving /gamergatehq/'s board owner, and whether or not he may be an FBI informant. What is known are these things by his own admissions: he keeps files on those that post on his board, and that he's good with an FBI agent on a first name basis. He used this dossier as well as cross-referencing post histories made on his board with the information he gathered on these people and shared some or all of this information with an FBI agent. Couple this with the deal he made with Hotwheels in which he's allowed exceptional treatment in the form of extra pages in return for not fucking up his board, and we have a bit of a dilemma.
Hotwheels said that Acid's admission that he wasn't an informant was good enough here.
https://twitter.com/infinitechan/status/670247018040717312
https://twitter.com/infinitechan/status/670247211507150848
Now, I don't know the exact details of the situation. I've heard that he was swatted, and that it was a simple knock and questioning. I've also heard that there wasn't anything resembling a swatting called in, but tips regarding the BO trading some rather illicit information on another board. This is all irrelevant.
What is relevant is that HW just gave someone implicit permission to use a popular board regarding a controversial topic to combine personal information and posting history of users and report them to the FBI.
I don't know whether or not Hotwheels is apathetic or what's going on, but recently, he's been content to lead from the back and not address any sort of issues involving his user base or anything more than the technical end of the site. In 2014, I respected him since he was much more of a man of the people than Moot was, happy to engage users, to directly address issPost too long. Click here to view the full text.