Meta Researcher Raped in Virtual Space

Zuckerberg has wasted $10 billion. Women don’t feel comfortable on this and if women don’t go, only a small subset of guys will.

A tip: call it "r-worded" if you want to monetize this post!

You wrote a misleading headline, and then argued against the headline you wrote, knowing it wasn't even describing what actually happened.

[quote]A researcher's avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta, making her the latest victim of sexual abuse on Meta's platforms, watchdog says

[quote]A researcher entered the metaverse wanting to study users' behavior on Meta's social-networking platform Horizon World. But within an hour after she donned her Oculus virtual-reality headset, she says, her avatar was raped in the virtual space.

[quote]"One part of my brain was like WTF is happening, the other part was like this isn't a real body, and another part was like, this is important research," she said in the report.

[quote]SumOfUs researchers also reported experiencing homophobic and racial slurs in Horizon World and said they witnessed gun violence on the platform.

[quote]Four other users also recently said their avatars were sexually assaulted or harassed in Horizon World and other Meta VR platforms, according to the SumOfUs report.

[quote]But the next month, a metaverse researcher named Nina Jane Patel said in a post on Medium that within 60 seconds after she joined Horizon Worlds, three to four male-looking avatars gang-raped her avatar.

Seems to be a genuine problem, and not the fault of researchers who should have just logged off.

Was it virtual rape rape?

It was unintentional, R3. Yes, it should have been "she". I'm still recovering from the weekend and didn't notice. Apologies.

Can like the avatars actually commit rape? Is that a thing?

[quote] Seems to be a genuine problem, and not the fault of researchers who should have just logged off.

Couldn't the virtual rapist just not virtually rape someone? Her job was to conduct research. If her virtual character (avatar?) is getting assaulted by others in the metaverse every time she's on the platform, that's an issue -- ditto for the people encountering homophobic and racial slurs. If everyone who isn't a straight white conservative male should just expect to be treated this way on their platform or piss off, Meta's metaverse platform [bold]will[/bold] fail and they [bold]will[/bold] lose users to competitors.

Since it's just avatars, why didn't she rape him back?

Oh shit, avatar Me too starts now!

I'm advising all female avatars to carry a virtual AK-47 and a donkey dick under their virtual skirts. And no lube.

Do they offer virtual male on male gangbangs?

Just asking for friend. I don't condone violence, of course.

I want pics

Wow, talk about diminishing of the word rape.

Laser tag

I don't understand this whole thing.

I like some of the comments in OP's link:

[quote] Does this imply that there will be a virtual police investigation, a virtual arrest, a virtual trial and being sent to virtual prison?

Just another day in the disintegration of America.

I wonder if the researchers were told not to log out if something went wrong. It would be similar to people hired to go through moderation queues, you can't just say no, I'm not going to look at that dead body or that CP, because it's your job to look at them and moderate them. It's insane, though, normal humans can't properly deal with that kind of content on an extended basis without risking mental health issues as a result.

This isn’t rape. People get harassed online all the time. You can choose to log off. And I agree that this meta thing is a huge mess and WHO DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING? People commit rape in real life so why wouldn’t more do it anonymously behind a keyboard?

[Quote]This isn’t rape. People get harassed online all the time. You can choose to log off.

Let me guess: the “victims” were all white straight women

Invasive Robotic Surgery??

^ We should have known those pigs would drop the “non”

Cyberape or Cyberrape?

Men just can't control themselves.

This is inadvertent marketing for the concept of virtual bodies. If we take this seriously as rape, we invest in the whole Meta concept. Agree that people shouldn’t harass each other online and ignore this.

I have an Oculus and porn is shocking on it. You are seeing through the eyes of the victim. In virtual reality, I was the passive bottom and you can see this man mount you. If you have ever had this experience you will know what I mean. Sensory overload kicks in and it can go either way, good or bad. It really is intense and I had to rip the thing off my head and take some breaths. It was scary.

They weren’t even wearing virtual condoms! And now, if she gets virtually pregnant, she can’t even get a virtual abortion, thank you very much Virtual Supreme Court!

What was she 0110100110ing?

You just recruited a1,000 Dataloungers to Oculus, R27.

I just knew those Robots 🤖 would eventually get the upper hand

R27: MARY!

And she was almost home!!!

Virtual reality is one step away from 'Total Recall'. Insanity is next.

People do not seem to understand that even today, at it's very root, the threat of violence is all that holds civilization together.

^^ Fear keeps people in order, sorta.

I got gangbanged in a chatroom on gay.com way sometime in the late 20th century.

I used to run a brothel in Smallworlds. My jacuzzis were covered in jizz!

They do it on Second Life...

^^^ Oh no, honey. VR is real people not blow up dolls.

Ah, incels.

While my avatar got raped in the Metaverse, she dissociated herself from the assault by calling on her own female warrior avatar named Tarava.

NOPE. I REFUSE to allow this into MY life. I'll keep (insert pronoun here) lifted up in prayer.

Better that these freaks are staying indoors and not going outside hunting for real victims, at least.

So women are now being raped in their imaginations?

As usual r45

Back in the day there was a Village Voice story on a similar incident:

[quote]I want pics

There's a video.

lol R48

R44 Just give it a few years and better technology and nobody will know the difference.

I don't understand why a platform would allow that kind of interaction at all? Why isn't there a way to avoid that? I know it's not being taken seriously but it does suck that an entire platform is going to be off limits to certain groups because of harassment. Half the internet is already ruined because shitty people have dominated spaces. Online spaces need to work this out -- is there going to be rules about engagement or not? If not, expect the shittiest people to take over. The racists, homophobes, sexual predators, etc., Which will ruin it for everyone.

Was she virtually impregnanted? Will she have to virtually carry to term her virtual baby in Samuel Alito's America now?

Geezus, who gives a fuck about virtual rape?

Did her avatar resemble Charlie Chaplin by any chance?

[quote] My jacuzzis were covered in jizz!

So they were jizzcuzzis?

0/0=OP.

OP didn't write the story, R56.