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49% of the women surveyed experienced some form of harassment in VR while others denied that those experiences are even harassment by saying: "Oh grow up. It’s pixels on a screen." "Kids will be kids -- big deal." "That sex gesture is childish, but I'm not sure it's harassment."https://twitter.com/theextendedmind/status/981509730618060800 …
There's not a universal definition of harassment. Trolls see playing w someone's personal space & emotions as a game. It's almost as if they view someone else's experience as not real because the interaction is in a virtual space isn't "real" (i.e. it's just pixels on a screen).
The survey by @theextendedmind & @PlutoVR defined harassment in VR as any time someone was "groped, stalked, catcalled, shown a lewd picture, heard a sexually explicit comment, or had an experience they defined as sexual harassment."
https://extendedmind.io/blog/2018/4/4/virtual-harassment-the-social-experience-of-600-regular-virtual-reality-vrusers …pic.twitter.com/d3otpdnMne
The essence of harassment is the lack of empathy of what someone else is experiencing. Trolls are centered in their own experience of expressing agency where social interactions become a game of triggering other people's emotions to make themselves feel more powerful.
.@theextendedmind's survey found that blocking people in VR was the most effective way to deal with harassment followed by muting, making trolls invisible, having personal space bubbles, live moderators, & changing voice.
https://extendedmind.io/blog/2018/4/4/virtual-harassment-the-social-experience-of-600-regular-virtual-reality-vrusers …pic.twitter.com/SKQz0WxR3b
How would it work to block someone in a social VR space on the decentralized, open web? Blocking someone in real life is like getting a restraining order, which requires a centralized control point + method to identify someone. How would this work with self-sovereign identity?
There's eventually going to be a hard limit to using technology to handle harassment in virtual spaces. Will we start to adopt social scores? Will this create Black Mirror's NOSEDIVE? As the line between VR & IRL blurs, then countering harassment becomes more of a cultural issue.
The onus should be on content creators to empower users with control over the environment in social settings. It should be a simple gesture to make another participant disappear. Not a menu. I realize this is a band-aid to a much larger issue. A good start is to acknowledge it.
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