Toxic gaming tackled by Ubisoft's unique police alert system

[chickabumpbump]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64476762

[Angel]

Ubisoft does have toxicity like any other games but I thought their system was ok already. Their kicking and banning system was ok for games like Siege and it publicly shows who and why people got banned when it happened.

[chocolate donut]

What ubisoft (and a lot of triple A game companies, apparently) really need is a unique police alert system in their offices since they have a long track record of sexual harassment of their female employees.

[the vampire of time and memory]

I see no problem with ppl who throw out death threats facing some consequences for their actions tbh

very PC take I know

[Tonepoet]

ṼṏẌṏḭḊ の投稿を引用：

Police are gonna get overwhelmed with false alerts and Ubi$oft is gonna be to blame.

This will be fun.

It's a B.B.C. article about England (specifically with the Northumbia Police) with a passing mention of Norway. They won't be false reports.

The U.K's. freedom of speech protections aren't a part of their constitutional law (ergo, rules that establish the constituency of government and the extent of its authority over its citizenry, whether written or not). It's part of the human rights act of 1998[www.legislation.gov.uk] and much more restrictive. It's also written with express yet vague wiggle room for restrictions and limitations, more akin to the provisions found in the French Declarations of the Rights of Men than the U.S. constitution's first amendment.

The net result of making freedom of speech part of mere statutory law and not absolute in nature is that it basically does not exist in any real capacity, because parliament may override it at any time. and there are hate speech laws in the U.K. that could render any number of insults actionable offenses. Hate speech laws that would be ruled unconstitutional as freedom of speech violations in the U.S.A. could be actionable offenses in the U.K.[www.theweek.co.uk], so throwing out certain slurs could actually end up getting people not only arrested but convicted if it comes to the attention of the police.

[chocolate donut]

the vampire of time and memory の投稿を引用：

I see no problem with ppl who throw out death threats facing some consequences for their actions tbh

very PC take I know

Incoming clown awards to own the libs.

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

I've been on the receiving end of a lot of rape and death threats in the past, would love to see those actions have a consequence instead of the little keyboard warrior hiding behind his screen being untouchable.

Saying those kinds of things on social media carries the same weight as saying it in person so the same should also apply to online gaming.

[talemore]

You been abusing the controller by touching on its joystick. Now the controller is dead because of you. Ubisoft take this serious.

[GunsForBucks]

Γαῖα の投稿を引用：

No lets ignore the very platform like social media we created that has allowed the premise to exist and instead add a big red button to absolve itself from any liability so they can continue to cash in as after all what some of the things a few people say is a mere minor nuisance and secondary.

Forging friendships and making memorable experiences is butter speech to obfuscate a salient fact words will change to achieve the same effect and remain untreatable until such time as they catch up, only to change all over again.

The simplest approach would be to remove the ability to speak altogether, reduce the crime and the amount of tax payer money spent dealing with it.
I have to wonder does a government earn more in taxes through a online game than they spend on the problems it causes and if so the motive to allow it to continue, what does that say about our society.

It's free and run by adults.

[Entity]

Ffs, the public in Northumbria should be told their money is going there, rather than the police dealing with the crimes in their region. It’s just fraud at this point to be an officer and take a wage. Good job on those police for failing every type of crime victim, but hey…

Do they want to go tell the sexual assault victims that they can’t be bothered to deal with them as they are dealing with this? They don’t even currently have enough police to do the job they are paid to do in the first place. So now they are simply stealing a wage and not working for that area…

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/fewer-crimes-lead-to-charge-in-northumbria/ar-AA16U6GM

https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/crime/one-in-20-crimes-result-in-charge-or-summons-4007048

[Yarr]

just another check mark to piss away (steal) more money.
x amount of money allocated every month to "unique police alert system"
what do they do ?
nothing.
...
absolutely nothing.

[I'm_Tired]

How do those crybabies even survive from 2 decades of people calling you ♥♥♥♥ player or is it just the new generation that can’t being called names behind the computer screen?

[GunsForBucks]

💕 𝓑𝓾𝓷 💕 の投稿を引用：

I've been on the receiving end of a lot of rape and death threats in the past, would love to see those actions have a consequence instead of the little keyboard warrior hiding behind his screen being untouchable.

Saying those kinds of things on social media carries the same weight as saying it in person so the same should also apply to online gaming.

Sad truth is depending on who you are, even in real life, they won't do anything unless there is physical contact.

I have called the police for an insane neighbor's kid making threats at me and they told me they didn't want to get involved and I should have a third party contact the home owner so I wouldn't have to approach the house and get tackled by the nutcase. I say kid but he is around 30 with his own kids in the basement now.

Well private police force here, if they get involved they want to see a profit so calling them is a double edged sword too. But I felt I had no other recourse with the death threat..

Nope didn't want to get involved. Call them back after I am dead or something ha ha.

Now if I was famous or something ...

[talemore]

GunsForBucks の投稿を引用：

💕 𝓑𝓾𝓷 💕 の投稿を引用：

I've been on the receiving end of a lot of rape and death threats in the past, would love to see those actions have a consequence instead of the little keyboard warrior hiding behind his screen being untouchable.

Saying those kinds of things on social media carries the same weight as saying it in person so the same should also apply to online gaming.

Sad truth is depending on who you are, even in real life, they won't do anything unless there is physical contact.

I have called the police for an insane neighbor's kid making threats at me and they told me they didn't want to get involved and I should have a third party contact the home owner so I wouldn't have to approach the house and get tackled by the nutcase. I say kid but he is around 30 with his own kids in the basement now.

Well private police force here, if they get involved they want to see a profit so calling them is a double edged sword too. But I felt I had no other recourse with the death threat..

Nope didn't want to get involved. Call them back after I am dead or something ha ha.

Now if I was famous or something ...

In their perspective you're the nutcase calling the police before a crime has been made where you really believed that you were in danger that you attacked in selfdefense. Then court has to decide if you were in danger or if there is a foundation why you were willing to sacrifice your freedom to save yourself.
People who are really scared would fight for their lives and in the court point of view the financial damages caused by the hooligan need to be journal every day. Everything the hooligan do, how many days since the last attack and what you did that day is all evidence. And what it did to you financially. They can't value your emotions. The court and the law is to protect the ruler from mobs causing fiscal damages. You had to act to survive. Companies act to self preserve their survival and in court they're accused by their competitor who try to kill the company. There's always a motive.

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if they want to keep living from dopamine rush and showing off based ♥♥♥♥ games they need to make preparations from side effects caused by maddened masses. that is, they need to have something to show off that they are taking measures.

[trousers]

Reading through the article, it's significantly less interesting than I thought it would be. This has never happened before in my entire life.

Overall, I'm pretty okay with the idea of the owner of what is effectively a communications network liasing with police (who can then liase with other police forces worldwide) in the event of extremely threatening behaviour that crosses legal boundaries.

I am also okay with the idea of a police force having staff that can give advice to locally based businesses. I mean, they do that a lot.

I'm less okay with Northumbria Police being underfunded, understaffed, directionless, and focusing more on reassuring people that they're doing something instead of actually doing something. But I suppose it's easier to spare a deskie than it is for them to put officers out to arrest the entirety of Byker. Sorry Byker. You're just easy to blame.

Haway man. Why aye. Etc.