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A girl was allegedly raped in the metaverse. Is this the beginning of a dark new future? | Nancy Jo Sales
British police are investigating the case of a minor who was allegedly subjected to a virtual gang rape. Expect more cases
www.theguardian.com
Those people can't be serious. How did this "virtual gang rape" even happen? Did someone hold the girl's hands IRL so she couldn't just leave the server in a second?British police are investigating the case of a minor who was allegedly subjected to a virtual gang rape. Expect more cases
British police are investigating the sexual assault of the girl, identified only as being under the age of 16, in what is said to be the first investigation of its kind in the UK.
Does that even need to be asked?Was this really rape? some have asked.
The comments on an Instagram post for a story about the case in the New York Post were characteristically skeptical: “Couldn’t she have just turned it off?” “Can we focus on real-life crime please?” “I was killed in [the war video game Call of Duty],” one person said sarcastically: “Been waiting for my killer to be brought to justice.”
A very weak excuse. In pretty much any online environment, you can fully expect trolls to show up and wreak havoc. When that happens, you either ignore them or leave, both of which this girl could've done at any point.The difference, of course, is that while Call of Duty players can expect to be virtually killed sometimes as part of the game, the girl had no reason to expect that she would be raped.
How do you know that those were adults? I'd guess they were some teens tbh.It isn’t yet known what game she was playing when the alleged assault occurred, but obviously there isn’t an online game where the goal for adult players is to rape children.
The question of whether virtual rape is “really rape” goes back to at least 1993, when the Village Voice published an article by Julian Dibbell about “a rape in cyberspace”. Dibbell’s piece reported on how the people behind avatars that were sexually assaulted in a virtual community felt emotions similar to those of victims of physical rape.
Those people just can't live without trying to find a new way to claim oppression and victimization every day.
As did the girl whose avatar was attacked in the metaverse, according to a senior police officer familiar with the case; he told the Daily Mail: “There is an emotional and psychological impact on the victim that is longer-term than any physical injuries.” In addition, the immersive quality of the metaverse experience makes it all the more difficult for a child, especially, to distinguish between what’s real and what is make-believe.