Topic: Female Gamer "Sexually Assaulted" While Playing PS3

[Chozo Ghost]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97538-Female-Gamer-Sexually-Assaulted-While-Playing-PS3

The roommate of a female player claims that her avatar was "sexually assaulted" while inhabiting thePlayStation 3's free social space, Home.

On December 22, 2009, PlayStation forum member Whoef posted a story describing how his female roommate was harassed while she was participating in the puzzle games associated with Home's Winter Wonderland event. The unnamed harasser followed the woman's avatar around incessantly near the Festive Tree and used the crouch emote, ostensibly to position his avatar near her backside. Whoef claimed that this behavior was sexual in nature and demanded that Home have some way to combat such behavior. An Australian newspaper picked up the story today and opined that just because such attacks occurred in a game, that doesn't mean that they aren't real.

Wow.... what the hell?! 

[BeautifulShy]

When I first read the title I thought a girl was being sexually assulted in real life. In any case this is wrong and disturbing.

[Crimm]

This stuff happens a lot.  A news story about it is funny.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I almost posted this in the Funhouse NEWZ thread a day or so ago.

"Oh NO!!!!! stop humping my avatar!!!"

next we will see people filing sexual assault suits over teabagging in Halo3.

[ThePerm]

lol.....thats like what me and my brother did to people immediately when we downloaded home, so much for inverse kinematics, and boundary boxes.

[ShyGuy]

Teabagging is molestation.

[oohhboy]

It's not sexual assault if the person you are teabagging is DEAD.

[BlackNMild2k1]

sexual desecration of a corpse?

but the dead can't file charges.

[Mop it up]

This is why the PlayStation network needs friend codes.

[ThePerm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0NjBdt6FZI&feature=related

[Ian Sane]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/12/12/
 
Wouldn't this classify more as sexual harassment than sexual assault?  This is more like saying something really crude to a girl.  I wouldn't consider it assault unless you were spying her in a state of undress or touching her.
 
And if you started charging people for crimes against avatars then we're all getting arrested for murder.

[Shaymin]

Clearly she should've responded with a fine Quincying.

Warning: Not safe for work school humanity

[S-U-P-E-R]

I'm the e-rapist in the original post

[BlackNMild2k1]

::blows the whistle::

[D_Average]

Thats it.  I'm deleting Home.  Can't take any chances!

[EasyCure]

So much worse happens in Animal Crossing its not even funny.

[MoronSonOfBoron]

I wonder whether cyberspace will continue to be regarded as personal space in the future, or whether the zeitgeist will accept that privately controlled virtual space meant to simulate an alternate existence separated from our own universe with its own imagined ruleset and conduct is not entirely within the jurisdiction of real-world ethics.

Noobs should go play WoW.

[S-U-P-E-R]

b-b-b-b-but my fursona!!