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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The unicorn has no feathers at midnight.
The lily has yet to be engulfed by fire.
I played online Tiger Woods golf for ten years. One guy, career Navy, seals support, and myself played as a team for years, mostly playing with the same gamers. One night my partner and I were playing with a couple of guys we didn’t know. This one guys little girl, sounded about five, started crying that she was hungry he kept telling her to STFU. The guy starts screaming at her violently to “go to f’n bed you little “C” and suddenly we heard him start hitting her, really hard. She was screaming terribly, and the more she screamed the punches got harder and his threats were horrible . We started yelling for him to stop, he must have lost his earpiece, we had no idea what to do. I tried to call EA Sports and they said there was nothing they could do, it was all private info that they didn’t even have, which I found hard to believe. My partner said he would find out who the guy was and get involved with LE, he spent severl days on this and it was an absolute dead end. We didn’t want the info, we wanted EA to do something and they claimed they couldn’t get involved.
It is true.
Let me give you and example.
Download Uncharted Waters Online. The company chats and private chats have no record after the room is closed.
Listen up, Bub!
If you and your 45 ‘friends’ are going to live in my basement, at least make yourselves useful and put in proper drainage tiles and build a Rec Room or, MORE IMPORTANTLY, a Wet Bar!
:)
Huh, maybe they will pick up my soon to be ex son in law. He is always bragging about his racial epithets on steam and discord.
Yo feds, you want rebels? Just head over to Escape from Tarkov servers.....you’ll get your ass handed to you in VOIP.
Ugh. Discord says it will ban people who correctly sex transgender people, but it’s how I stay in contact with my D&D group. I’m finding another group to play with, since this group’s getting too woke for my tastes anyway, and then I’m deleting the app from my phone.
Current games:
Bioshock
Deliver Us the Moon
Fallout:New Vegas
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
(openmw) Morrowind
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Sniper Elite V2
All off-line single player for the same reason I like Free Republic - not subjected to streams of profanity.
There are crossdressers and mutilated crossdressers - that's it.
Is Call of Duty “extremist”, or GTA?
GTA is what the Dem’s want America as a whole to look like.
I play a golf game, am I safe from the FiBs ?
Radical golf gamers !
As soon as we clear the next level.
How about Halo?
They got me. I have Galaga and Ms. Pacman on an old xbox and Call of Duty from circa 2008. My 6 yr. old grandson wears out Galaga.
LOL! Fine. But I want all the Cheetos crumbs vacuumed up before you kids leave!
Make a Burt Gummer rec room.😏
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