US politician wrote to a number of game companies, including Sony and Microsoft, asking them about fighting Extremism and Harassment in Online Gaming Following a disgusting report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). According to Axios, the letter comes after ADL found that in 2022, 77% of his adult girlfriends and his 66% of his teenage gamers reported being harassed while playing online. Written by his seven congressmen.
Harassment in online games will rise significantly in 2022
The aforementioned figures represent a 6% increase in harassment reports for both teens and adults this year. “We want to better understand the processes you have in place to handle reports of players encountering harassment or extremism in your online games, and to implement safeguards related to anti-harassment and anti-extremism. I am writing this email to seek consideration of.” letter.
Recipients include Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Innersloth, Microsoft, PUBG Corp, Riot Games, Roblox, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Square Enix, Take-Two Interactive, Tencent, Ubisoft and Valve, according to Axios. increase. The letter was co-signed by Massachusetts Rep. Lori Trahan and California Rep. Katie Porter among others.
Interestingly, three male professional Valorant players recently experimented and used voice changers to pretend to be female online. The entire exchange was recorded on video, and the player found himself immediately harassed and beaten by team members.You can check out another clip of that experiment twitter.
