A bunch of seven lawmakers are sending a letter to the world’s largest online game corporations tomorrow, asking every of them what steps they’re taking to fight “harassment and extremism” in on-line video video games.
As Axios studies, the seven Democratic representatives—together with Lori Trahan (Massachusetts), Katie Porter (California) and Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon—have all co-signed a letter, which is seeking to “better understand the processes you have in place to handle player reports of harassment and extremism encounters in your online games, and ask for consideration of safety measures pertaining to anti-harassment and anti-extremism”.
Unsurprisingly, the listing consists of corporations like Activision Blizzard (Call of Duty, Overwatch), Microsoft (Xbox), Sony (PlayStation), Roblox, Take-Two Interactive (Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K), Riot Games (League of Legends, Valorant), Epic (Fortnite) and Electronic Arts (Battlefield, FIFA & Madden).
Those are all large worldwide corporations, most of them with hundreds of staff unfold out all around the world, and accountable for a number of the planet’s hottest and enduring on-line video games. To need to grill them, when so lots of them are based mostly within the US—or a minimum of hottest within the US—is a fairly apparent transfer!
Hilariously, although, whoever put the listing collectively of which corporations to focus on has clearly simply gone down an inventory of “most popular games”, not “biggest companies”, as a result of amongst these titans of business are Innersloth, the builders of Among Us.
Among Us could also be an enormous hit, however Innersloth are additionally a tiny crew. How tiny? This tiny:
Innsersloth’s webiste says the studio presently has 20 staff. I don’t understand how a lot they’re going to have the ability to clarify when their sport has you taking part in as a cute little astronaut, doesn’t have voice chat and solely lets gamers talk by way of a menu of pre-written strains.
But then no one has to legally reply to the letter in any respect, it’s only a letter, so possibly they’ll simply reply “sorry, think this is meant for Xbox!” and get on with their day.
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