Gaming companies are sharing gamers’ user information with the government to root out so-called domestic violent extremists.

Gaming companies are coordinating with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to root out so-called domestic violent extremist content, according to a new government report. Noting that mechanisms have been established with social media companies to police extremism, the report recommends that the national security agencies establish new and similar processes with the vast gaming industry.

The exact nature of the cooperation between federal agencies and video game companies, which has not been previously reported, is detailed in a new Government Accountability Office report. The report draws on interviews conducted with five gaming and social media companies including Roblox, an online gaming platform; Discord, a social media app commonly used by gamers; Reddit; as well as a game publisher and social media company that asked the GAO to remain anonymous.

The Anti-Defamation League has testified to Congress multiple times about extremists’ use of gaming platforms. In 2019, ADL’s then-senior vice president of international affairs, Sharon Nazarian, was asked by Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., if gaming platforms “are monitored” and if there’s “a way AI can be employed to identify those sorts of conversations.”

  • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 months ago

    It’s telling how you think that the context somehow makes this ‘better’.

    It doesn’t, at all.

    Jokes that are the product of a bigoted mind always carry the stink with it but people who align with said bigotry never notice because they are STEEPED in it constantly.

    Just like when people grow up and leave 4chan and the realize in horror that what they thought is normal there, is VERY much not normal.

    Which is why when edgelads try to repeat jokes they got off of forums in real life, it always comes off as creepy and flat.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Outside of extremely lefty places like lemmy jokes like that are acceptable and if you called that joke out as bigoted then people would consider you odd. It’s not even an edgy joke it just has a racial punchline.

      • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        8 months ago

        I get the feeling that your only experiences outside of lemmy are 4chan and new.reddit if you think bigotry is that normalized.

        • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
          11·
          8 months ago

          Please never join the fbi. There won’t be a single gamer who isn’t an extremist in your eyes.

          Also you’re delusional to assume my only internet experience is new reddit and 4chan. There is no one on this site who’s internet experience is new reddit and 4chan. That person doesn’t end up on the fediverse.

          • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            Shit son I’ve been a gamer so long my first controller only had one button.

            You got zero induction going on in your thinkmeat but you assume you know everyone.

            That person doesn’t end up on the fediverse.

            As if they weren’t here day one. You’re blind if you don’t smell the reek of underbed cumsock in the bottom of most popular threads.

            Or just hiding your power level.

            • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
              12·
              8 months ago

              I don’t care how long you’ve been a gamer its obvious you’re old and out of touch.

              How could this new reddit/4chan user have been here day 1 if the fediverse dates back much longer than new reddit.