Although it is not "real", the fact that it was possible to do this in a game does have a real significance in that it trivializes the act of ****. That is what is offensive.I'm not sure why this would ever be considered "****" or "assault".
It's just a 3D character approaching another 3D character. Plus nudity and sexual content are forbidden on the platform. Plus users can block other users. Plus there are already safeguards that prevent users from approaching others. And the researcher accepted to disable that limitation.
Please do not diminish what actual **** is with this virtual nonsense. The player did not endure any sort of actual assault of any form.
This was not harassment, this was not "call to commit suicide", nothing like that, that could indeed have real consequences. No hands groping your body, no penetration, no hits and blows, no threats, no trauma, nothing! The researcher could just have blocked the other user, or could have taken her helmet off, or whatever.
It was a digital character approaching another digital character. It could have been a car approaching another car or anything else for that matter
Considering it **** is a very serious insult to actual **** victims. And it's not acceptable.
I see it also. Sex doll sites will probably start next, making "*****" dolls for the pedophiles.I think, as besides MP Games with options to unlock besides the chat, in which already ***** is very possible, and happening, now "meta" aka Facebook, Instagramm etc. is moving into use of avatars and so on, it is pure logic that human nature, as Freud already found out, will push things into finding out how to ***** in new - now graphic, as in 3D porn - ways.
You know how especially females get attacked in so many situations, when opponents in "post wars" go to threatening to **** or ***** or ******** them, it happens all the time, now it will become possible to act on these words, in the cyber marketplace, and there will be livestreamings of these happenings.
Legislation and Jurisdiction better be proactive and create new cyber crime task ****** and laws, I see dark times coming.
I think they do that already in Japan. But that leads to this thought. The government, and *************** routinely go on line and pose as minors for the purpose of ridding our society of filth, so combined with cyber crime units that already investigate non sexual crimes, I would guess they will have no choice but to address the issue.I see it also. Sex doll sites will probably start next, making "*****" dolls for the pedophiles.
Charles Dickens summed it up very well:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”