'When you take that headset off, it's not like you can forget that. It's part of your memory now, and so you have to keep processing that.' -Dr. Brenda Wiederhold (PhD), cyberpsychologist
, which specializes in online abuse — are “practically immune” to legal liability, because the laws that would make them liable just really don’t exist. And whatever legal statuteswas] created nearly 30 years ago to give burgeoning internet companies some protections against legal liability for content users posts on their platforms,” Goldberg says.
That extends to the accountability of individual users too. According to Goldberg, as our criminal justice system stands now, there are no specific laws around avatars. “Forcible touching and other sexual assault crimes would generally require some physical component, so we don’t expect law enforcement would, at this point, pursue a crime against an avatar,” she says.
Since revealing her virtual sexual assault, Patel says she has received death and rape threats, this time offline, and threats against her daughters, illustrating the real world impact this kind of online abuse can bring. It’s a reality that Patel, like every gamer who logs on, didn't sign up for. “This was not a video game, and I certainly did not choose this.”
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