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.
That's my thought. You're only legitimizing hardcore capital G Gamers by making an excuse outlet for them to point out whenever their toxic behavior is called out.
I'm ok with this. It shouldn't be said around children. I think even in the "adult" games it's a worthwhile tradeoff against white supremacy, racists and fascists.
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.
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.
That's my thought. You're only legitimizing hardcore capital G Gamers by making an excuse outlet for them to point out whenever their toxic behavior is called out.
"Hurr just use the mute button if you don't like it."
Then people would get banned for saying "fuck".
Remember, in the eyes (ears?) of the boomers running this shit, all curse words are equally bad.
Okay, but consider, I will never have to deal with an 8 year old who knows more racial slurs than me at work.
I'm ok with this. It shouldn't be said around children. I think even in the "adult" games it's a worthwhile tradeoff against white supremacy, racists and fascists.
Agreed. In games where it's an option, I turn off all language filtering so that I can see and report the racist fucks.
Rating the online part of a game is such an obvious solution I can't believe I've never heard about it or thought about it before.
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.
What if they just forced this technology on all the time
Then you'd have agencies deciding if people are black enough to drop the gamer word.
Lmao
It's not the correct solution but the correct solution would have to come from the game devs and not Intel