Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I've been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, 'Final Fantasy,' 'Dragon Warrior' and 'Super Mario' offered a lifeboat.

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Competition in the American tech sector is being gobbled up by the largest players, and it's threatening our entire industry.

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I've spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.

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When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.

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Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.

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In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill.

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I love video games dearly.

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I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

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I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that's an industry leader in making games for women. We are passionate about creating narrative games for the avalanche of new consumers who don't fit the old gamer stereotype.

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Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools. It wasn't that they were outwardly opposed to white and black people attending school together, it was that the rulings threatened their proud identity as independent Southerners.

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It's see no evil, hear no evil with toxic male gamers - whose every whim and adolescent fantasy has been catered to for decades.

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I think Gamergate is just a symptom of a disease: a $90 billion global industry that was built by men for men.

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Gamergate gave birth to a new kind of celebrity troll, men who made money and built their careers by destroying women's reputations.

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Gamergate should have been a time of reckoning for the gaming community, which had long been rife with sexism and misogyny. It wasn't.

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Since Gamergate, many women I know are reluctant to speak publicly on gender issues, because they fear - rightly - that they will be targeted and harassed.

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The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.

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Gamergate is ostensibly about journalistic ethics. Supporters say they want to address conflicts of interest between the people that make games and the people that support them. In reality, Gamergate is a group of gamers that are willing to destroy the women who have invaded their clubhouse.

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In stopping Gamergate, the men who dominate it - not just women - must address the culture that created Gamergate.

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It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard.

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Even when the nation's leaders acknowledge tech issues, details are lacking.

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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.

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