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Facebook saw this coming, to an extent, instituting “hand harassment” measures from the outset, in which “an avatar’s hands would disappear if they encroached upon someone’s personal space.” But considering the rampant nature of sexual harassment online, perhaps they should have foreseen how bad the problem would be. Considering that the founder’s first venture was a hot-or-not website for college students, perhaps it’s not surprising that they didn’t.
Mother opens up about being ‘virtually gang raped’ in metaverse
“Within 60 seconds of joining — I was verbally and sexually harassed — 3-4 male avatars, with male voices, essentially, but virtually gang raped my avatar and took photos — as I tried to get away they yelled — ‘don’t pretend you didn’t love it’ and ‘go rub yourself off to the photo,’” Nina Jane Patel, 43, recalled in a Medium post recounting the “nightmare” she experienced as a beta tester on the VR platform Horizon Worlds, created by Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook.
originally posted by: peaceinoutz
Metaverse is 80, 90s technology. When I heard Zuck talking up this old technology that hasn’t caught on I wondered what his game really is all about.
originally posted by: Brotherman
This is what happens when you volunteer to play with millions of idiots in a virtual zoo. I’m shocked this wasn’t expected.
People are getting Violated in the Metaversevirtual molestor,
originally posted by: olaru12
People are getting Violated in the Metaversevirtual molestor,
I'll play, but anyone trying to virtually molest me, I'll punchem right in their file transfer protocol and twist their Algorithms until they cry.
They robbed most of us of basic human interactions the past couple of years