Nintendo Employee terminated from her job in the midst of GG controversy

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http://kotaku.com/nintendo-employee-terminated-after-smear-campaign-over-1768100368

 

http://kotaku.com/the-ugly-new-front-in-the-neverending-video-game-cultur-1762942381

 

https://kiwifar.ms/threads/alison-rapp-pro-child-porn-welfare-recipient.18002/

 

http://gamers-are-dead.tumblr.com/post/141993358719/httparchiveish186u-httparchiveis3s3zy

 

http://pastebin.com/Y3bGcdzF

 

Honestly can't believe nobody's talking about this. Yeah, a lot of the articles are pretty long, so basically in summary Nintendo Employee, who has recently been blamed for the censorship of the localizations of Xenoblade X and Fire Emblem: Fates (despite being a PR person, who as far as I know have no hands on time with the games, but w/e).

 

Basically she was fired from her job yesterday, and the whole internet exploded. Some are happy due to the fact that there's proof of her being in favor of allowing people to possess child pornography. While some believe that Nintendo is unjust in their termination of her, and claim that Nintendo is bowing to a misogynist hate movement.

 

In my opinion nobody should be harmed for their views as long as their not actively using them to harm people, especially not views that they held fives years ago, that may have changed now. That being said I'm in no way encouraging the production of child pornography considering how extremely damaging it can be for the not yet fully developed psyche of a child.

 

I do believe that NoA was perfectly justified in terminating Ms Rapp due to the fact that she was moonlighting (which was a breach of her contract) into what basically amounts to being a camgirl. First of all I want to say that I am all for sex positivity, however distributing sexy photos of yourself (especially ones including a product manufactured by the company you own) on the same Twitter you use to advertise products to children is completely unprofessional.

 

What she does on her own time is her own business and none of mine, or anyone else's concern. It doesn't matter. However when she does things like this in ways which connect her to Nintendo it is at that point no longer an issue of sex positivity/negativity but professionalism as an employee of Nintendo, something that was obviously not exhibited here.

 

On the flip side of things though I have to wonder why 5 years ago when she originally made the tweets in defense of the possession of child pornography, and wrote her controversial college thesis. It's funny to me that people want to pull receipts now, but when it actually matters people don't really give a funk about victims of sexual abuse, especially those who are underage. I feel like these issues only seem to come up when there's a news story about it, or when people have an axe to grind just saying.

 

All in all I think this is pretty ugly on both sides, and the only non-guilty party in this entire funked up affair is Nintendo, who imo did the right thing.

[Halubaris Maphotika]

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/03/nintendo_fires_treehouse_alison_rapp.html

 

http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/nintendo-alison-rapp-fired-moonlighting/#8vkj75Ctdiq3

 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/31/nintendo-denies-alison-rapp-firing-is-linked-to-harassment-campaign

 

I don't give a f*ck what her views are, when you say dumb sh*t on the internet it reflects poorly on your employer. Nintendo was in the right and she is a moron for thinking such controversial viewpoints would not jeopardize her job, same with getting a second job while working FOR NINTENDO. GamerGate doesn't have anything to do with this, she is blaming them to distract from the fact she got fired for a legitimate reason and she wants morons to petition her job back. Anything making her look bad would be counterproductive.

[Shalltear Bloodfallen]

You've got two articles from Kotaku, a pastebin, a Tumblr whose title is "Gamers are dead", and a forum post. Already this makes me not want to take a damn thing you say seriously. Secondly, this bullcrap "Online Harassment Campaign" is ridiculous. Please stop drinking the koolaid, thanks.

 

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/03/nintendo_fires_treehouse_alison_rapp.html

 

http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/nintendo-alison-rapp-fired-moonlighting/#8vkj75Ctdiq3

 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/31/nintendo-denies-alison-rapp-firing-is-linked-to-harassment-campaign

 

I don't give a f*ck what her views are, when you say dumb sh*t on the internet it reflects poorly on your employer. Nintendo was in the right and she is a moron for thinking such controversial viewpoints would not jeopardize her job, same with getting a second job while working FOR NINTENDO. GamerGate doesn't have anything to do with this, she is blaming them to distract from the fact she got fired for a legitimate reason and she wants morons to petition her job back. Anything making her look bad would be counterproductive. Go ahead though, believer her "Harassment" claims.

 

It doesnt happen often, but this would be one of the few moments I completely agree with you, Calligy

[Halubaris Maphotika]

It doesnt happen often, but this would be one of the few moments I completely agree with you, Calligy

I believe we would probably agree on a lot of things, those things are just never brought up.

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You've got two articles from Kotaku, a pastebin, a Tumblr whose title is "Gamers are dead", and a forum post. Already this makes me not want to take a damn thing you say seriously. Secondly, this bullcrap "Online Harassment Campaign" is ridiculous. Please stop drinking the koolaid, thanks.

 

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/03/nintendo_fires_treehouse_alison_rapp.html

 

http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/nintendo-alison-rapp-fired-moonlighting/#8vkj75Ctdiq3

 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/31/nintendo-denies-alison-rapp-firing-is-linked-to-harassment-campaign

 

I don't give a f*ck what her views are, when you say dumb sh*t on the internet it reflects poorly on your employer. Nintendo was in the right and she is a moron for thinking such controversial viewpoints would not jeopardize her job, same with getting a second job while working FOR NINTENDO. GamerGate doesn't have anything to do with this, she is blaming them to distract from the fact she got fired for a legitimate reason and she wants morons to petition her job back. Anything making her look bad would be counterproductive. Go ahead though, believer her "Harassment" claims.

Apparently somebody didn't click the links, because the pastebin is an archive of all her tweets in support of child pornography, and the tumblr post chronicles her moonlighting, but I guess you just want jump to a conclusion.

 

Also, are you just going to ignore this

 

I do believe that NoA was perfectly justified in terminating Ms Rapp due to the fact that she was moonlighting (which was a breach of her contract) into what basically amounts to being a camgirl. First of all I want to say that I am all for sex positivity, however distributing sexy photos of yourself (especially ones including a product manufactured by the company you own) on the same Twitter you use to advertise products to children is completely unprofessional.

 

What she does on her own time is her own business and none of mine, or anyone else's concern. It doesn't matter. However when she does things like this in ways which connect her to Nintendo it is at that point no longer an issue of sex positivity/negativity but professionalism as an employee of Nintendo, something that was obviously not exhibited here.

 

whole part of my argument, or are we did you just read the title and the first two links and make an assumption??? Honestly I said that NoA was justified in their termination of her, or did you just funking skip that part. No where in post do I show support for Ms Rapp, but for some reason seem to think I'm saying the exact opposite. Where in post do I mention online harassment? Where did I say that I thought she was being harassed? Honestly if you can point out these points in my argument I'd appreciate it. Where in my post do I mention GamerGate to be involved in her termination. The title of the of my post does not say that she was fired because of the controversy, it says that she was fired during it, which is a true statement.

 

The articles I have linked provide both sides of the argument for and against her termination, and are used to provide as much information as possible, not to convey my viewpoints in anyway. So rather than jumping to a conclusion and judging a book by its cover, why don't we read a little next, ok sweetheart? 

[Halubaris Maphotika]

Even you have to admit, a forum and Tumblr are not the best sources to use for information regarding an event that requires facts. Kotaku isn't exactly spreading truth either but at least they have some sort of reputable backing. I never disagreed with your post on her firing, and nowhere did I say that. I simply said that any claims of "Online Harassment Campaigns" against Alison have no factual basis in reality and then I made a Koolaid joke (which I officially take back because it had no relevance whatsoever to anything)  Even if they were just collections of her moonlighting and tweets, labeling them as such isn't a bad idea either, instead of slapping 5 links down and expecting me to take it seriously. All I did was point out that the list of links doesn't give me the general idea of information I need to take seriously, because of what they are. I read the forum posts, and looked at an archive of both articles when I found them, but I didn't look at the Tumblr posts or Pastebin, that is my fault and I apologize.

 

I also would like to apologize for my wording in my second paragraph when I said "Believe her harassment claims" as that actually wasn't intended for you, but more of her supporters in a general sense, and I obviously worded it very poorly. I will edit both pieces posthaste. I can't pretend like I wasn't rude in my wording either, I apologize for that as well. Both of the things that sounded as if they were directed at you actually weren't, but when I say stuff like that I tend to talk as if the general audience is the one person I am talking to. Of course this isn't the first time I have f*cked up in that regard.

 

The Online Harassment thing, Koolaid joke, and "Believe" comment were actually directed at the Kotaku articles, not you. I apologize once again for messing up language wise.