[ExI] Sexual Assault problem in the Metaverse

[Will Steinberg]

She wasn't, some people just went up and were being trolls and doing
humping grabbing stuff.  It's uncouth but anyone who would think it's
relevant enough to write a specific article about must not venture very far
outside their own social media echo chambers.  Gaming overall is full of
rude people like this.  This shit happens in kids games like Roblox for
fuck's sake and that's a much worse issue imo.  There are tons of people
like this though on the internet (often from countries which are behind in
women's rights).  Any woman who has ever been on the internet can confirm
this.  Definitely not an issue with the metaverse in any way, more like
"the internet is full of perverts and thus those perverts will be perverts
on whatever platform they go on, and on a platform where they can act as
bodies and approach other bodies, it is obvious that they will use those
functions in perverted ways"

It's a very predictable result.  Didn't really need an article

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 7:24 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I wonder why she was using a platform where avatars even had the parts to
> rape or be raped, if she was not there for sexual content.
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:24 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> A Researcher Says She Was Just Sexually Assaulted In The Metaverse
>> Within an hour of putting on her Oculus headset, her avatar was raped
>> while she was in the virtual realm.
>> Published May 31, 2022   By Katie Hutton
>>
>> <
>> https://themindunleashed.com/2022/05/a-researcher-says-she-was-just-sexually-assaulted-in-the-metaverse.html
>> >
>> Quote:
>> “Metaverse: another cesspool of toxic content,” a new report published
>> by the researcher Tuesday, details the researcher’s encounter in
>> Meta’s Horizon World.
>> Researchers working with SumOfUs said that they were exposed to
>> homophobic and racist remarks while in Horizon World.
>> -------------------
>>
>> Looks like Lowest Common Denominator stuff at present.
>>
>> BillK
>>
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