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Fire them! - Dark Jaguar - 30th March 2016
The Nintendo fired someone and it isn't entirely clear as of yet why she was. All that's known is she was recently being targeted as the source of recent "censorship controversy" and large numbers of people were demanding she be fired. Some suggested she was a pedophile, which seems the height of hypocrisy considering that all the recent censorship hangups have been DUE to Nintendo cutting out content that sexualized young girls.
http://kotaku.com/nintendo-employee-terminated-after-smear-campaign-over-1768100368
I for one believe the majority of these people demanding a company sacrifice are probably on the younger side. I see a lot of people saying Nintendo USED to put much "edgier" content in their games (as though edginess is what's at issue here), and don't seem to realize just how much worse NOA used to be with their censorship policies. They're as open as they've ever been, but when games seem to explicitly be designed to sexualize underaged girls, that's a problem that needs to be dealt with. These people give me the creeps.
Fire them! - A Black Falcon - 4th April 2016
So what seems to have happened here is that she was the target of an awful GamerGate campaign, and it was found that she had some (unspecified?) second job, and Nintendo fired her because they didn't like whatever that other job was... or something like that. So yeah, it's seriously questionable on Nintendo's part. Nintendo denies that the GamerGate campaign had anything to do with her being fired of course, and say that it was just because of the second job, but she says that others there had second jobs with no issue, and of course the whole thing only came up because of the harassment campaign that Nintendo didn't seem to do enough to fight.
So yes, I would say that Nintendo is probably more in the wrong here. Even if she technically was maybe breaking some rule (that apparently is not always enforced), her claims that her gender and Nintendo's corporate conservatism were involved in causing it seem extremely likely.
Summation of what probably happened: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=199708152&postcount=2941
Nintendo definitely does not look good here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=199709258&postcount=2960
Fire them! - A Black Falcon - 5th April 2016
http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/05/game-developer-group-doesnt-let-nintendo-off-the-hook-for-firing-alison-rapp/
It's good to see some more pushback against Nintendo's actions here.