When is someone going to regulate (read: END) the whole e-sports/FGC/Twitch sexual-assault/etc. cover-up/allowance?

Each day, it keeps on rolling forward.

Yesterday, Kotaku came with an article stating that no less than FIFTY accusations came forward of sexual misconduct and other crimes within the "Super Smash Brothers" competitive video-game scene.

And then when you read some of the comments, on top of it...

Cliffs Notes version of both, so that Ian Walker can take due credit for his work here:

• Troy Wells has accused commentator Cinnamon Dunson of a sexual relationship in 2016, while Dunson was rising through the commentary ranks.  Dunson was 24 at the time, Wells... 14!  At least one major organizing body has banned Dunson from even attending their events.
• This opened the flood-gates.  Jason Bates, seen as one of the GOATs of Smash on one of the platforms it's played upon, accused by one female fan that Bates and a number of other players took turns on her at age 15!  This would've also been in 2016; she claims Bates has attempted to have the fan cover up her age at the time of the situation.  Bates has lost his main sponsorship contract with additional claims against him.
• Gonzalo Barrios has had several other claims against him as well.  Jacqueline Choe's claim is sexual misconduct when she was 15, and another fan came forward the next day to say that there was online sexual assault when she was 14!  He also has been terminated from his sponsorships.  Barrios was also seen as one of the greatest of all time -- including one stretch where he won over 50 consecutive tournaments.
• At least one commenter came forward and said a popular strategy at tournaments was that players would deliberately not shower for days on end, using their own body odor as an offensive attack against their opponents to gain an advantage in the game.
• At least one documentary on the Smash community has had to be seriously rewritten (and perhaps scuttled) on the basis on the number of abusers in play.
• At least one landlord is believed to be involved in this on both the creation of inappropriate living conditions (professionals living with underage people) AND possible sexual misconduct as well.
• One commenter, probably sick of it all coming across Kotaku on a continuing basis over the last couple of years, has gone to asking "is it safe to assume that everyone that plays fighting games competitively is a pedophile"?

Has my message finally begun to take some root?

IT'S ALL FUCKING DIRTY AND ALL NEEDS TO BE SHUT THE FUCK DOWN!

The entirety of e-sports (especially in the United States), along with it's bloated Twitch hierarchy, has been used as a cover and encouragement of a level of sexual misconduct which would probably implicate damn near everybody in the genre if it came to light.

I've said NUMEROUS TIMES that, much like the anime sub-genre, if the truth were ever known, it goes, and it all goes, and it all goes at once!

When are people going to learn that the only way to stop it is to cut it off, Lorena Bobitt-style?  (And you can take that as far as you wish to take it, as far as I am concerned.)

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This also dovetails into something I mentioned on the blog before.

I said, I want to think about a month ago now, that I was sitting on details on a story much similar to many of the stories outlined here.  It is still percolating and in-progress, and I'm waiting for both progress on the story and permission of the parties involved to go forward with it.