I was over Death Island; doing recon and ground support.
Brian Williams is my favorite reporter. He knows exactly how I feel.
Posted on 01/06/2024 8:50:58 AM PST by Levy78
The cheerful language with which tech companies describe their platforms is often in stark contrast to the dark possibilities lurking within them. Meta, for example, describes its virtual world, the metaverse, as “the next evolution in social connection and the successor to the mobile internet”, a place where “virtual reality lets you explore new worlds and shared experiences”. But for a young girl in the UK recently, that “shared experience” was an alleged gang rape.
British police are investigating the sexual assault of the girl, identified only as being under the age of 16, in what is said to be the first investigation of its kind in the UK. The girl was reportedly wearing a virtual reality headset and playing an immersive game in the metaverse when her avatar was attacked by several others.
Was this really rape? some have asked. The comments on an Instagram post for a story about the case in the New York Post were characteristically skeptical: “Couldn’t she have just turned it off?” “Can we focus on real-life crime please?” “I was killed in [the war video game Call of Duty],” one person said sarcastically: “Been waiting for my killer to be brought to justice.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I would ban whoever did something like that from my site and report them to law enforcement, and offer the “victim” a lifetime of free gaming and merch. I mean, if people do violent stuff online they are probably going to do it at some point IRL, if they haven’t already. Giving the cops their info will prevent future problems.
Also, the young lady’s parents should be asked why they’re not keeping tabs on their minor kid’s online activity.
And that should be it, unless whoever did it continues to harass the victim on other sites or in person. (My experience has been that rapists tend to harass and stalk their victims afterwards, so again, the site owner should report them to law enforcement.)
Just my opinion! *dodges thrown shoe*
I hope Judge Judy gets involved.
That is not rape.
So the tens of millions who play call of duty online are likely to murder someone?
TY
it’s just a game like GTA...
The Dark New Future is here. The good, wise, truth-seeking will prevail.
I saw this coming years ago when I was still teaching and saw students, particularly the less social ones, starting to brag about how many friends they had online starting with Myspace.
And the farmer hauled another load away.........
Once when I was playing Frogger....
1960’s
Many young people watching TV news, thought that they were viewing the truth. The youngsters were without experience and would not study.
Early 1970’s
A column in TV Guide was critical of “the liberal media.”
By chance, if you worked on the AP and UPI wires, you found more and better info - before that info was cultivated by Walter Cronkite et al (his leftwing axis inside the beltway at The Kennedy’s and AFL-CIO [labor unions], DNC Central).
Now days, less study; but tons more info - more progressive cultivation providing the leftwing menu that reduces study.
Look at the virtual representations of da rapists. And da answer be yes. THANK GOD FOR ABORTIONS!!!
I got killed 3 times playing The Division 2 yesterday. I guess l should see of l can get OJ to help me find the real killers.
We aren’t gonna to make it.
I was murdered in call of duty!
How do avatars “attack” one another in the Metaverse?
Wouldn’t there have to be a way for avatars to restrain one another? Did a group of other avatars (a “gang?”) just hem in the girl’s avatar somehow to restrict its movement? A reset should get the avatar out of that situation. Then the behavior brought up with the mods, IMO.
If it’s persistant, unwelcome attention and harassment, Metaverse mods should should ban or restrict anyone proven to be involved in harassing other users. JMO.
Then you’re dead.
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