<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On 2022. Jun 1., Wed at 0:24, BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A Researcher Says She Was Just Sexually Assaulted In The Metaverse<br>
Within an hour of putting on her Oculus headset, her avatar was raped<br>
while she was in the virtual realm.<br>
Published May 31, 2022   By Katie Hutton</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think comparing metaverse “rape” to real life rape is an insult to victims of the latter, which, you know, really hurts.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" dir="auto"><br>
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<<a href="https://themindunleashed.com/2022/05/a-researcher-says-she-was-just-sexually-assaulted-in-the-metaverse.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://themindunleashed.com/2022/05/a-researcher-says-she-was-just-sexually-assaulted-in-the-metaverse.html</a>><br>
Quote:<br>
“Metaverse: another cesspool of toxic content,” a new report published<br>
by the researcher Tuesday, details the researcher’s encounter in<br>
Meta’s Horizon World.<br>
Researchers working with SumOfUs said that they were exposed to<br>
homophobic and racist remarks while in Horizon World.<br>
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Looks like Lowest Common Denominator stuff at present.<br>
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BillK<br>
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