I'm sure this is true!
Posted on 03/11/2024 4:19:40 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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 Intercept reached out to the companies identified in the GAO report for comment, but none responded on the record at time of publication.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have mechanisms to share and receive domestic violent extremism threat-related information with social media and gaming companies,” the GAO says. The report reveals that the DHS intelligence office meets with gaming companies and that the companies can use these meetings to “share information with I&A [DHS’s intelligence office] about online activities promoting domestic violent extremism,” or even simply “activities that violate the companies’ terms of service.” Through its 56 field offices and hundreds of resident agencies subordinate field offices, the FBI receives tips from gaming companies of potential law-breaking and extremist views for further investigation. The FBI also conducts briefings to gaming companies on purported threats.
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I’m still not over losing my Wii-Me Emoji in the divorce! These basement dwellers are going to be devastated! ;)
Book mark
On the one hand...
I have often thought that a video game chat would be the perfect way for bad guys to communicate. You are using anonymous accounts, you could speak in code, and there are far too many to monitor them all.
On the other hand...
If they are going to start using these “woke” companies to monitor “right wing extremists,” this is going too far. Type “Joe Biden Sucks” on Discord and find yourself on a domestic terrorist list? Welcome to Joe Biden’s Amerika!
So, it’s OK to play games where you blow apart other characters with grenades, rockets, bombs, machine guns, tanks, warplanes etc... but mind your language!
so,,.
where are we at on section 230 again ?
Section 230 aside, both “publishers” and “distributors” are liable only when the speech they disseminate is independently illegal or tortious.
platform ?
publisher ?
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Many games have private chat rooms where no record of the chat is kept. If you were looking for a platform to communicate covertly, they’d be a good idea.
if true the Don & DHS are no better than the old East German Stasi (secret police))!
I am not a “basement dwelller” bub. I am gamer with a clan of 45 like minded players.
Some dipstick was crying today about how Trump did not respect the career government employees at the DOJ and FBI.
Gee. I wonder why that would be?
If supporting this kind of "career government employees" is what you have to do to be Conservative, here's my card.
Just call me a Normal America from now on.
Indeed, it’s very confusing. Very few of the platforms are not also publishers. They have gamed it to where they can have their cake and eat it too.
I’m a long time EVE Online player. It’s devilishly complex, completely unpredictable and full of unpleasant surprises and occasional ultrviolence. 11 years later, I’m still at it. Eff all you Fedbois.
Me too. I saw activision blizzard but not square enix. I play both world of warcraft and final fantasy
Translation: your “private” conversations on your members-only Discord server will be secretly monitored and reported to the Feds if they get too spicy.
Time to go back to Teamspeak.
Oh well
Once again, our communist masters make no attempt to reduce the increasing weight of the chains (around our necks) that they keep adding links to...
Is there any indication from the American peasants that this would be a bad thing to endure?
Just one more link in the heavy chains-of-tyranny that are already around our necks...
Indolence & inaction is how we came to be under communist rule and it is what will continue that dark tyranny for all of our descendants...
Monopoly players too.
I’m one even if it’s an ancient version on a CD ROM.
I'm sure this is true!
Division 2 and many open world games
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