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A gaggle of seven lawmakers are sending a letter to the world’s largest online game firms tomorrow, asking every of them what steps they’re taking to fight “harassment and extremism” in on-line video video games.
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As Axios reviews, 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 checklist consists of firms 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).
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Those are all large worldwide firms, most of them with 1000’s of workers unfold out all around the world, and answerable for a few of the planet’s hottest and enduring on-line video games. To need to grill them, when so a lot 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 checklist collectively of which firms to focus on has clearly simply gone down a listing of “most popular games,” not “biggest companies,” as a result of amongst these titans of trade are Innersloth, the builders of Among Us.
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Among Us could also be an enormous hit, however Innersloth are additionally a tiny crew. How tiny? This tiny:
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Innsersloth’s web site says the studio at present has 20 workers. I don’t know the way a lot they’re going to have the ability to supply Congress, given 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.
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But then, no one has to legally reply to the letter in any respect—it’s only a letter, so perhaps they’ll simply reply, “Sorry, think this is meant for Xbox!” and get on with their day.