Posted on 10/16/2020 2:56:37 PM PDT by grundle
Enforcing “social justice in gaming” by tattling on your private conversations.
Sony has announced that it will allow Playstation users to record in-game voice chats so players can snitch on each other for mean words said during private conversations.
Yes, really.
The game console’s latest update forces users to waive their privacy rights, allowing others to report them and get their accounts banned for speech violations.
“Following this update, users are seeing a notification about Party Safety and that voice chats in parties may be recorded,” Sony announced. “Voice chat recording for moderation is a feature that will be available on PS5 when it launches, and will enable users to record their voice chats on PS5 and submit them for moderation review. The pop up you’re seeing on PS4 right now is to let you know that when you participate in a chat with a PS5 user (post-launch), they may submit those recordings from their PS5 console to SIE.”
“If a group of friends want to make off color jokes to each other privately, talk about freaky stuff or sexual content then that’s their business,” complained one Twitter user.
Sony claims the update is necessary to enforce “safety and moderation” standards and prevent harassment, yet the actual agenda is obviously to police political speech and prevent criticism of far-left groups like Black Lives Matter.
As Chris Menahan notes, “The move comes just a few months after PlayStation partnered with the Anti-Defamation League — a leftist group which advocates for online censorship and hate speech laws in the name of stopping “the defamation of the Jewish people” — to pressure Mark Zuckerberg to ramp up censorship on Facebook.”
EA Sports also teamed up with the ADL to “enforce social justice in gaming,” another example of how Marxist social engineering is being inserted into every form of entertainment imaginable.
They can call the new voice recording system the “Little Eichmann”.
Doesn’t recording Children come along with serious legal issues?
last thing i care about is playing a game with other people online
thank christ it isn’t something i like to do
From PLAYstation to HATEstation police. Every electronic device available wants to spy on us. All my phone apps want access to my photos and sd card with the ability to delete material on both of them.
I won’t be buying it. I’m only interested in he’s on my tablet. If I did get it, I’d have choice words for punks.
Tattle-tell, tattle-tell, hanging off a monkey’s tail.
Good grief, these commie SOB’s are taking the “fun” out of everything. These snowflakes need to just go hide under their bed if they can’t handle daily life. Bunch of wuss’s.
Apparently not if you’re google or amazon or Apple or tiktok or............
Sounds like a civil rights suit on deck.
In California both parties have to know and agree to any
recording.
Good luck...people will be sued. in some states it’s illegal to record someone without proper consent and notification.
>> From PLAYstation to HATEstation
Good one
Fascism is spreading like crazy nowadays. And many people were ragging on the Germans for their descent into madness and the whole world is now circling the drain.
They are trying to seem the popup notice as being sufficient. In other words, unless you agree to being recorded, you can’t use the system.
Good luck with that.
I agree.
Why not just let the players block the voice feed of people they don’t want to hear?
How hard could it be?
Thought Police?
The best way to monkey wrench this nonsense is to get a large group to use voice chat to play annoying songs over and over again. Then get other players not part of that group to complain about foul language, racism, sexism, and other violations.
So, when the chat Nazis listen to the recordings they think that their system has been hacked, after listening to “Baby Shark” for an hour and a half, interspersed with “Crazy Frog”, “Hamster Dance”, and “Nyan Cat”.
So, turn off chat, duh, you don’t HAVE to use it
I only play single player games anyway, I can scream anything I want, lol
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