I really want to know exactly the sample population these people have taken, and who and how they conducted it, but apparently the media does not need to cite its sources...
I've been an online gamer for over ten years now...never heard any of those, or anything similar meant seriously.
2) Where does the rest lie? I'm curious. -.-
This may just be me, but I can't think of a time someone has seriously hurt my feelings in online gaming because of the way they talked to me, or in gaming at all for that matter. I seriously don't see this is an issue.
One gamer told an opponent he presumed to be Jewish that he wished Hitler had succeeded in his mission. Many exchanges involve talk of rape or exult over the atomic bombing of Japan. There are frequent slurs on homosexuals, Asians, Hispanics and women.
I've been an online gamer for over ten years now...never heard any of those, or anything similar meant seriously.
...wow...he must have such an isolated world..."Personally, I don't do a lot of online gaming for that reason," said Flynn DeMarco, founder of the Web site GayGamer.net, which has worked with Microsoft and other companies on steps to clean up online gaming. "I don't play with anybody I don't already know."
1) Is someone else speaking for me?"A lot of the problem lies within the players themselves," DeMarco said.
2) Where does the rest lie? I'm curious. -.-
Water is wet, fire is hot, any other great truths you'd like to reveal?"There is always a subset of humanity that goes toward miscreant behavior," Toulouse said.
Pffffft. 1-2 million, yeah right.With 1 million to 2 million players online at any one time, most of the policing falls to other users who report hate speech to the company, he said.
What? How do you conduct criminal behavior over a voice-set?Players whose conduct crosses into criminal behavior are reported to law enforcement, he said.
Which should be pretty much all you need...Gamers always have the power to mute out any other player they find offensive, or can block an offensive player and not encounter him again, Toulouse said.
This may just be me, but I can't think of a time someone has seriously hurt my feelings in online gaming because of the way they talked to me, or in gaming at all for that matter. I seriously don't see this is an issue.
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