{"id":139986,"date":"2022-05-30T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T20:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/a-researchers-avatar-was-sexually-assaulted-on-a-metaverse-platform-owned"},"modified":"2022-06-13T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T21:40:40","slug":"a-researchers-avatar-was-sexually-assaulted-on-a-metaverse-platform-owned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/a-researchers-avatar-was-sexually-assaulted-on-a-metaverse-platform-owned","title":{"rendered":"A researcher\u2019s avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-researchers-avatar-was-sexually-assaulted-on-a-metaverse-platform-owned.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you think that crimes committed within the Metaverse should be accountable just as the same as crimes accounted for in the \u201creal\u201d world?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A researcher entered the metaverse wanting to study users\u2019 behavior on Meta\u2019s social-networking platform Horizon World. But within an hour after she donned her Oculus virtual-reality headset, she says, her avatar was raped in the virtual space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sumofus.org\/images\/Metaverse_report_May_2022.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Metaverse: another cesspool of toxic content<\/a>,\u201d a new report published by the nonprofit advocacy group SumOfUs on Tuesday, details the researcher\u2019s violent encounter in Meta\u2019s Horizon World.<\/p>\n<p>According to SumOfUs\u2019 account, users invited the researcher to a private party on Horizon World earlier this month. Users in the same room then asked her to disable a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meta-metaverse-virtual-groping-personal-boundary-safety-bubble-horizons-venues-2022-2?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">setting<\/a> that prevented others from getting within 4 feet of her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think that crimes committed within the Metaverse should be accountable just as the same as crimes accounted for in the \u201creal\u201d world? A researcher entered the metaverse wanting to study users\u2019 behavior on Meta\u2019s social-networking platform Horizon World. But within an hour after she donned her Oculus virtual-reality headset, she says, her avatar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140540,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139986\/revisions\/140540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}