A gaggle of seven lawmakers are sending a letter to the world’s greatest online game corporations tomorrow, asking every of them what steps they’re taking to fight “harassment and extremism” in on-line video video games.
As Axios stories, 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 trying to “higher perceive the processes you’ve gotten in place to deal with participant stories of harassment and extremism encounters in your on-line video games, and ask for consideration of security measures pertaining to anti-harassment and anti-extremism”.
Unsurprisingly, the record contains corporations like Activision Blizzard (Name of Responsibility, Overwatch), Microsoft (Xbox), Sony (PlayStation), Roblox, Take-Two Interactive (Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K), Riot Video games (League of Legends, Valorant), Epic (Fortnite) and Digital Arts (Battlefield, FIFA & Madden).
These are all large worldwide corporations, most of them with 1000’s of workers unfold out all around the world, and accountable for a number of the planet’s hottest and enduring on-line video games. To wish to grill them, when so lots of them are based mostly within the US—or at the least hottest within the US—is a fairly apparent transfer!
Hilariously, although, whoever put the record collectively of which corporations to focus on has clearly simply gone down an inventory of “hottest video games”, not “greatest corporations”, as a result of amongst these titans of trade are Innersloth, the builders of Amongst Us.
Amongst Us could also be an enormous hit, however Innersloth are additionally a tiny workforce. How tiny? This tiny:
Innsersloth’s webiste says the studio at the moment has 20 workers. I don’t understand how a lot they’re going to have the ability to clarify when 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.
However 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, assume that is meant for Xbox!” and get on with their day.
