Misogyny, Bigotry, and the Gaming Community

[GoOnKid]

Ka-pi96 said:

GoOnKid said:

About the harassments on the internet I have an unpopular opinion. I believe that the internet anonymity shouldn't protect anybody from threating and/or harassing other people, so I'd advocate for a change in mind. If somebody witnesses such behaviour in threads/posts/mails/whatever then it should be possible to report this to the police. Such beahvior is a criminal offense in my eyes and should be punished. I think humanity has tried to keep ourselves anonymous in the internet but it didn't work out, we need to correct it. It doesn't matter if we are online or offline, we still are in a society and we should behave like civilised humans. Track down these assholes and punish them. No mercy from my side.

The internet is global though. Different countries have different laws concerning things like this. Plus even if you report something to the police in your country if the person is in a different country then there's nothing that they can do about it.

I believe death threats and the like posted on the internet are a criminal issue in some countries already though.

Okay I want to clarify that I think it isn't the responsibility of the victim country's police but that of the villain's country.

Yes, it's indeed very difficult to establish a working system to prevent this, I understand. However, I think we need to do something. We need to stand up against shit like this and discourage it as much as possible.