Police investigate virtual sex assault on girl's avatar
bbc.com
Police are investigating a virtual sexual assault of a girl's avatar, the chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners has said.
Donna Jones said she had learned that a complaint was made in 2023, triggering a police inquiry.
The virtual incident did not result in physical harm but caused "psychological trauma", the Daily Mail has reported a source as saying. Police chiefs have called on platforms to do more to protect their users.
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The impact of the attack on the girl's avatar was said to be heightened because of the immersive nature of the VR experience.
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This place needs more girls.
The comments here are appalling. So many rape apologists. This is what rape culture is all about.
Y'all should be ashamed.
I don't think you meant "appealing".
No I meant appalling. Stupid autocorrect.
Can you point to a comment that is highly upvoted and is a rape apologist?
No. The simple fact that you're asking this question is proof that you're acting in bad faith.
I'm done with this thread.
Can you provide evidence for your extraordinary claim?
No I can provide no evidence for my claim therefore I'm right.
You get why this makes no sense right?
It's your problem if you want to go off in a big huff because the rest of the universe doesn't conform to your imaginations. Next time try to get pissy about something that's actually happening.
What, are you high? It's offensive to compare this to rape, it completely trivialises it. To force someone to participate in the physical act of sexual intercourse against their will, that's rape. Often with the threat or use of physical violence to ensure compliance. This will never be remotely adjacent to that until we're all wearing haptic VR speculums in every orifice.
I'm not saying it's rape. The article even states it's not considered actual rape because according to the laws where this is being applied, there needs to be a physical contact.
But it sure as hell is sexual harassment, which is a form of abuse. Furthermore it was done to an underage victim, which makes it even worse. It's perfectly acceptable to involve the police to investigate and file a complaint against the agressors.
This was the final straw for me to leave lemmy. I tried to give it a chance, even with all the radical idiots around, but it's not worth it.
Lemmy will be known for its extremist users and will never break critical mass.
If you take the dumbest assholes of reddit and group them up, you get Lemmy.
Honestly, I've had worst experiences on Reddit. The communities I'm part of are generally pretty chill. But, they're generally smaller ones with a few users.
When you end up on bigger communities like this one with a larger user base, you're bound to find a larger sample of... questionable people with questionable opinions and values. And they're usually the more vocal ones making it seem like the community is made up of rotten people.
It's not even about this post, it's mysogynist, isn't the first time I've seen it and won't be the last.
It's that too many people on here fell for conspiracy theories, are believing things too easy and also have very radicalised mindsets. Just one example, I read some "thought police" bullshit comments on here way too often and in every topic. Also all the questionable sources I see on here that only get questioned when it doesn't fit the narrative. I've had a past with conspiracy theories and I notice a lot of people eating them up on here. There's no nuance in the comments, just extreme opinions. There's also a lot of antisemitism on here thinly pretending to be critics to Israel, while commenting on disinformation posts sourced by Qatari government. When Formula 1 is in Qatar they flip their shit, when the source is from a Qatari state owned source, they rush to uncritically believe it.
What's the biggest community on here anyways, 50k? That is already incredibly small and shouldn't be as extreme as it is, unless the base line has lost their marbles.
The sorting algos in the comments also make it too easy to manipulate old and established posts that are already kind of dead, turning them from extreme left to far right in the visible spots. Sure, extreme left is better than extreme right, but generally extremism is a mind virus and I don't want to surround myself with it.
I don't like it here, and I don't think I will go out of my way to search for tiny places that are acceptable enough to excuse this.
Have a nice day.
LOL random off topic attack message from an insecure person.
Sure bud.
I love how you guys try to wrongfully profile me because I call out what I see.
Did you feel adressed by me or what's the reason for this?
Why are you still here? You said that you leaving
Because you ping me.
Found the incel!
JFC... 🤦♂️
Do you even know what an incel is?
I clearly didn't mean the commenter calling the horrible comments out, it was a follow up.
But thanks for confirming that the dumbest assholes and most easily impressionable users of reddit are here.
People here have the same resistance to disinformation and propaganda as the MAGA crowd. You will follow and believe every bullshit source as long as it fits your narrative. (Not related to this post, it's a general observation I made)
You guys are getting radicalised and it's so unbelievably easy.
Looks like you're not used to being around people who disagree with you.
Bullshit.
Okay.
That counts as agreement to me. I like you now.