this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
156 points (97.0% liked)

Technology

60112 readers
3529 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
156
Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns. (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.::Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Sanctus -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Legal definitions can and will change if this precedent is set.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy tracked down the guys home address and sent threatening messages. If you think that shouldn't be prosecuted then you'd be a hypocrite unless you also wanted real life harassment laws too be repealed as well. Just because harassment is done at a distance does not make it ok. Harassment laws aren't taken lightly in person, you have to do seriously over the top and intrusive actions, so there's zero reason to think that the same precedent wouldn't apply to online harassment.

[–] Sanctus 1 points 1 year ago

Obviously thats not okay. But once we accept large conglomerates sueing people they'll start toeing the boundaries. Nintendo already enslaved a guy for the rest of his life. This particular case is deserving, some won't be.