Zoe Quinn: after Gamergate, don't 'cede the internet to whoever screams the loudest'

In the same way we wouldn't expect a woman to prevent street harassment by never leaving her house, in her new book, Quinn argues we cannot advise people to prevent online threats by just staying offline

When I speak to Zoe Quinn, she's worried.

The game developer is in Los Angeles for the west coast leg of her book tour, but she's just had a serious threat made against her, directed at her next tour stop. She has to decide what to do. This comes on the heels of an appearance at New York's historic bookstore the Strand, where Quinn gamely handled a man who jeered at her from the audience.