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The Metaverse (Already) Has a Groping Problem
- 1cvmask 5y agoI wonder if they will pass laws outlawing sexual harassment and assault in the virtual world. And then if people will be hacked and framed for sexual assault.
- jfengel 5y agoWhy is it that every platform seems to need to rediscover the same problems? It's not 1995. If you open a space, it's going to attract trolls, spammers, hackers, etc. You've known this for a quarter century. Security people say, over and over, that you have to put security first. You can't layer it on after the fact. You have to make it a fundamental part of every interaction. It does no good to say "the beta tester should have used a tool called 'Safe Zone'". It shouldn't be up to the beta tester to remember that. If that's the route you want to go, you turn it on by default -- and then start figuring out how people are going to circumvent it. That sounds like a half-assed non-solution that comes from not taking the problem seriously. There's a million things they should be doing, and doing them from the design stage, rather than treating harassment as an unforeseeable consequence to be sloppily patched. They come with trade-offs, but so does not taking harassment seriously. If people feel uncomfortable they won't go. You can fill the space up with people with thicker skins, and sacrifice a large chunk of your market. Or you can start by looking to design a place where people live together and smoothing the friction between them, and maybe get really rich off of it.