This is not a court of law.

What has really taken me aback about the "discourse" over Gio's article is the assumption that many people on here seem to have, that they are entitled to all the "evidence" against Gio. If your thinking is, "well, Gio has presented his evidence, so if he's wrong then it should be easy to refute," I ask you to consider if it was even right for Gio to present this evidence publicly in the first place? If the case is so strong for Gio, then why does he need to rely on whipping Homestuck fans up into a fervor over the alleged actions of Hussie? Maybe I'm just personally tired of this era of Google docs call-outs, but I fail to see why this needed to be public unless Gio's case can only be made with an appeal to the reactionary emotions of Homestuck fans.

Those of you demanding "evidence" are so rigorous about validating such evidence (which I would point out is based on a subjective view of what "valid evidence" even is in this case), but have seemingly failed to view the article with any sort of critical eye. Why does this need to be made public, and why now? Why is the evidence presented in the way it is, through HTML reconstructions rather than screenshots? Why would someone keep such a meticulous log of every interaction he's had with anyone having anything to do with Homestuck? Why is it important for you, the reader, to know this information?

Gio is not a journalist, however much he acts like one, and I would point out that we are living through a real-life event that is proving the biases and fallibility of journalism as practiced in our current age. Just because you read it in a blog post does not mean it's automatically completely true.

I feel I've lost the plot of this post a bit while writing it, so I'll just wrap up by saying that I'm not making this topic to try and be inflammatory, or to say that Andrew Hussie Has Never Done Anything Even Remotely Wrong In Her Life, but to just remind everyone that it is important to be critical of your sources, as well as that we are not in a court, we are not a jury, and we have no real right to demand Andrew or anyone involved in Homestuck open up their private correspondences in order to convince you, the individual, that they are not lying.