Massachusetts congresswoman urges FBI to take Gamergate seriously

The Federal Bureau of Investigation isn’t doing its job when it comes to handling online threats — that’s how Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) feels.

The U.S. representative issued a letter to the House Appropriations Committee that asks that the government prioritize a response to cyberattacks that target women (as Jezebel first reported). Clark notes that several laws already exist to prosecute violent threats made online, but enforcement isn’t keeping up. She claims that federal prosecutors only went after 10 cases out of the approximately 2.5 million instances of online stalking that happened in the U.S. from 2010 through 2013. This issue is of particular interest in the wake of Gamergate, which is a group that has repeatedly targeted outspoken women in the game sector while claiming to be about ethics in journalism.