It's my understanding that Quinn was the indirect cause of the explosion, because the people who were targeting her with a misogynistic or at least sexist motivation triggered the "censorship". Most of the censorship apparently involved moderated forums and sites who decided, as private entities and based on previously-established moderation policies, to not allow unfettered trashing of Zoe Quinn. The wider corruption argument, at least at first, shows evidence of being a cover for the harassment of Quinn. The gaming media then got pissed off at the growth of attacks on them and posted the gamers are over articles.
One of the most notable examples of censorship came from Reddit, from this thread linking to TotalBiscuit's views on the initial controversy. His opinion was a very reasonable "if this is true, then it reflects poorly on those involved, but we really should wait until the dust settles to figure things out".
Thousands of comments were deleted. To be perfectly frank, I seriously doubt all of those comments fell into "misogyny". Were there some sexist idiots who made sexist attacks? Almost certainly. But that doesn't justify censoring every opinion on the matter.
I suppose your third point makes sense, but it seems a bit irresponsible on the part of #Gamergate rs to conflate these three issues in the way that they have...
I don't think so. All of them have an underlying theme: criticism of gaming journalism.
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