GamerGate arbitration case
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The GamerGate arbitration case laid the foundation for applying discretionary sanctions to:
- (a) GamerGate
- (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy
- (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed."[1]
Effect on Wikipedia
In other words, it created a precedent for any admin to ban anyone at any time for any reason on any page even tangentially related to gender.
Gamergate arguably made Wikipedia more authoritarian.