A South Korean official wants to make sexual harassment in online games punishable

**igualitarist** · 2018-09-20, 03:42 PM

Oh well, North Korea suddenly sounds like a reasonable place now.

**sarahtasher** · 2018-09-20, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by rsl

its only harrasment when Men do it

I'm sure your edgelords sites have tons of sites ''proving'' that people randomly screaming online ''I'M GOING TO RAPE YOU'' is done by females…..

**zenkai** · 2018-09-20, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by Fleugen

Then don't taunt people.

Cleans up the streets AND makes the game a better place. What are we honestly losing other than absue?

Taunting isn't and shouldn't be a crime, if it was, you all would be arrested.

**zenkai** · 2018-09-20, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by Fleugen

How would I be arrested for taunting?

Unlike you, I'm not a sore winner. When I win at a video game, I move on. I don't feel some need to exert dominance over the loser.

I only taunt when someone attacks me, if its a game like hearthstone, I don't use BM. But people who start shit I finish it hell yeah I'm going to taunt them. But you're deflecting from the OP, do you not think people get unfairly prosecuted under this law?

**minteK917** · 2018-09-20, 03:53 PM

You guys realize sexual harassment is already a crime and no its not because you taunted some random person once. Every time this forum has a discussion about sexual harassment it always come down to children of troll thinking harassment is like hey i found someone and told them they were an asshole once! The definition of Harassment is REAPEATED

You meet women in one game, say shes a cunt, youll rape her: Not tasteful, but not harassment.

You chase her around the servers, track her down in forums and shit to continue talking to the person even though they keep blocking you: Harassment.

This is how the harassment laws that already exist work in all our countries. If you dont need to harass people in public, work, in your home. Why would you need to on the internet? Just talk shit to someone, then move on.

**zenkai** · 2018-09-20, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by Fleugen

How will they be unfairly prosecuted?

If they simply play the game, nothing will go wrong. The moment they open their mouths to add anything additional, they have entered a legal grey area to begin with.

If it's that hard to keep your mouth shut, don't join voice chat. Nothing forces you to.

How fascist of you, if you simply conform how we want you to be, you won't be persecuted.

**minteK917** · 2018-09-20, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by zenkai

How fascist of you, if you simply conform how we want you to be, you won't be persecuted.

Your country already has laws against harassment. So does mine. How fascist?

**mitre27** · 2018-09-20, 03:56 PM

A country shouldn't be making this a law in my eyes, game companies already punish people for harassment, sexual or otherwise.

**zenkai** · 2018-09-20, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by minteK917

Your country already has laws against harassment. So does mine. How fascist?

Get back to me when you followed the conversation.

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Originally Posted by Fleugen

Nobody's telling you conform. It's literally "Stop being a douchebag and you won't be treated like a douchebag."

If you're gonna be a douchebag anyway, you probably deserve being prosecuted for it. In which case, good on this law for stopping you. It can only make the game a better place.

You think people being douchebags should be persecuted? I guess we need to conform, you would fit in well in China.

**Dextroden** · 2018-09-20, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Fleugen

Nobody's telling you conform. It's literally "Stop being a douchebag and you won't be treated like a douchebag."

If you're gonna be a douchebag anyway, you probably deserve being prosecuted for it. In which case, good on this law for stopping you. It can only make the game a better place.

To be fair, you left it opening your mouth will get you in trouble. Not being rude to people.

And I can tell you obviously are a ray of sunshine to play games with. Clearly.

**Player Twelve** · 2018-09-20, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by mitre27

A country shouldn't be making this a law in my eyes, game companies already punish people for harassment, sexual or otherwise.

No, they don't. They only punish them if enough people report them, if you are the only one reporting them then nothing happens. You can have someone go on for a whole game in Overwatch talking about how he wants to rape you etc. If you're the only one reporting him, he won't ever be banned. This stupid automatic system requires several people in a short amount of time to report them. Most don't care to ever report.

**Aitch** · 2018-09-20, 04:09 PM

If we discourage douchebags from being douchebags, how will I know who’s a fucking douchebag?

**Kodaline** · 2018-09-20, 04:13 PM

God I miss when only real gamers were on the net back in the 90s. Say whatever you wanted; it was awesome. Now they had to bring PC bullshit into my fun space.

Tell you what, I'll think that online harassment of women is an important thing right after they give up all the perks of being a woman. Things like not having to join the draft, living longer, being socially allowed to be a homemaker/dependent/stay-at-home parent*, and getting free shit/promotions/positive reviews/easier time from just being pretty. It's interesting how all that stuff NEVER makes it into the conversation, and it's always the pretty girls bitching, while the ugly ones are chill.

*=Despite the insistence that being a stay-at-home dad is now ok, men experience a lot of "You're a bitch for letting your wife support you / what the hell is wrong with your lazy ass for not working?" from society if they choose that route.

**Queen of Hamsters** · 2018-09-20, 04:13 PM

EVERYONE gets harassed online. There's a difference between little trolls throwing out insults they believe will stick, and being actually sexually harassed though.

**Kathandira** · 2018-09-20, 04:42 PM