I obviously think that anyone who says the n-word or other slurs from gaming should be voted to kicked and given a ban for increasing amount of times. But I would find it funny telling a racist that all their shit talking has been turned into robot bleeps cause he has zero creative insults lmao.
Why are gamers like this
Copy pasting a couple comments from the other thread:
Necessary, but not the correct solution.
Empowering players with a tool to mute racists is the incorrect path. The solution isn’t to mute the perps but to actually punish them so they stop the behaviour.
If this tech exists then a push should start to actually have the online portion of games get rated. The language of players should be rated with the same lens that is given to the offline game or movies.
This will force the companies to actually implement the tech in a way that punishes the people doing it. You need the regulation to do it otherwise the companies won’t implement it in this way, they will consistently try NOT to implement it because they will be scared that they’ll lose customers to their competitor who does not punish people for the nword.
The online portion of games needs an age rating.
It would completely force all companies to address the problem and quickly. The discourse about online activities of children in these videogames would immediately hit breakfast tv and be in front of the eyes of moms everywhere, globally. When they hear and see what is going on (because the media would sensationalise the shit out of it) the steam behind regulating it and getting the online portion rated would pick up pace rapidly.
You bet they’d be fucking eager to regulate themselves when that train got rolling. If the tech exists to handle this now then we should push for it. The excuse they had before was ultimately that it was impossible to really moderate voice interactions between people, AI will make that no longer true and it opens the door to really pushing the issue.
I think leftists should consider joining in on that (but not wearing your red flag). Taking away the reactionary nature of the videogame online space would hurt the Gamer™ to alt-right pipeline.
The option to filter out “some” or “most” of the misogyny or LGBTQ+ hate instead of all of it lol. Gotta have an option for the moderate G*mers who just want a bit of bigotry.
