THQ Nordic GmbH should take firm action after 8chan incident.

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The Issue

THQ Nordic GmbH -- makers of games like Darksiders and owners of Timesplitters -- decided to have an "Ask Me Anything" community event on 8chan, a website known to host pornographic content and hate speech, and served as a hub for various video game industry harassment campaigns, including GamerGate after 4chan banned discussion of the topic.

We will not purchase any THQ Nordic games until firm action is taken at the top level by the firm to address what happened.

The 8chan banner at the time of the event included references to "lolis" (children), and the site includes a board called "paedophilia".  The Daily Dot describes 8chan as "An active pedophile network", and in 2015 Google Images blocked the site for child pornography.

During the AMA THQ's marketing director replied to comment "Please don't censor any games nor appeal to the SocJus [Social Justice] crowd, you guys are doing fine as is." with "thanks! we'll try to stay that way.".  He also replied to a comment about "lolis" accompanied by a picture of a sexualised lady of questionable age.

After outcry THQ Nordic GmbH deleted the tweet linking the 8chan AMA.  THQ CEO Lars Wingefors told GamesIndustry.biz the matter had been dealt with on Twitter. 

That level of response is absolutely not acceptable for a large gaming company.  We will not purchase any upcoming THQ Nordic games until this matter is dealt with.

The Decision Makers

THQ Nordic GmbH

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Petition created on 28 February 2019