{"id":11872,"date":"2021-12-31T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11872"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:23:41","slug":"dark-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/31\/dark-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/30\/technology\/metaverse-harassment-assaults.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-2982e3c6\">The Metaverse\u2019s Dark Side: Here Come Harassment and Assaults<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\">As Meta and other companies bet big on an immersive digital world, questions about its harms are rising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br><\/strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/sheera-frenkel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sheera Frenkel<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/kellen-browning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kellen Browning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2021\/12\/30\/business\/00metaabuse\/00metaabuse-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Credit&#8230; Hannah Lock<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Chanelle Siggens recently strapped on an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/16\/technology\/personaltech\/facebook-oculus-quest-2-review-vr-headset-games.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oculus Quest virtual reality headset<\/a>\u00a0to play her favorite shooter game, Population One. Once she turned on the game, she maneuvered her avatar into a virtual lobby in the immersive digital world and waited for the action to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as she waited, another player\u2019s avatar approached hers. The stranger then simulated groping and ejaculating onto her avatar, Ms. Siggens said. Shocked, she asked the player, whose avatar appeared male, to stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe shrugged as if to say: \u2018I don\u2019t know what to tell you. It\u2019s the metaverse \u2014 I\u2019ll do what I want,\u2019\u201d said Ms. Siggens, a 29-year-old Toronto resident. \u201cThen he walked away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/30\/technology\/metaverse-harassment-assaults.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue<\/a> reading at NYT ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times The Metaverse\u2019s Dark Side: Here Come Harassment and Assaults As Meta and other companies bet big on an immersive digital world, questions about its harms are rising. By\u00a0Sheera Frenkel\u00a0and\u00a0Kellen Browning SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Chanelle Siggens recently strapped on an\u00a0Oculus Quest virtual reality headset\u00a0to play her favorite shooter game, Population One. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}