Woman says she was ‘virtually gang-raped’ in Facebook's metaverse

Facebook doesn't have a released product called Metaverse, though, right?

https://youtu.be/zVWC1tnClSw?t=283 also I don't know how one would play this and lead to the statement

> Virtual reality has essentially been designed so the mind and body can’t differentiate virtual/digital experiences from real. In some capacity, my physiological and psychological response was as though it happened in reality.

Unless you think humans are jiggly wiggly jellys held together with duct tape

This keeps coming up, for the last month or so?

As the old farmer said, you cain't push a wet string up a bull's arse. This story just aint gonna fly.

At least some of the "I got ganked in Eve Online" stories were funny.

I think the problem (beyond her working for a competitor) is it's hard not to think of Dennis from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "help help I'm being oppressed!".

Just turn off the computer

Unsurprising, and totally preventable by FB/Meta. Symptom of broader social issues, but in creating a community space without good defaults or planning they set themselves up to fail.

Also, during Beta?? Devolved fast. Couldn't be hard to verify and ban those involved.