Gaming companies are sharing gamers’ user information with the government to root out so-called domestic violent extremists.
  • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
    546·
    9 months ago

    Just to add context because this is a somewhat polarising headline, gamergate shit is back on the rise. Gamers generally aren’t being considered potential extremists, only literal extremists that happen to consider their opinions as representative of gamers

  • bazus1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    527·
    9 months ago

    First they came for extremist gamers and I did nothing because… fuck those guys.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3012·
    9 months ago

    This article quotes Hasan Piker and thats all I needed to see to know everything I need to know about this article. Nobody should be quoting that guy as the authority on anything except for having the evident need to continually hear his own voice, and having some of the most hypocritical, worst takes I have ever heard in my life.

      • Night Monkey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1210·
        9 months ago

        Hasan is a grifting fool who promotes socialism and communism and takes people’s donations but is already rich. His takes are complete garbage.

          • candid@lemmy.caEnglish
            51·
            9 months ago

            Yeah I honestly expected more nuanced takes from decentralized Reddit but I guess I expected too much. Nobody has provided any examples of his “bad takes” except that he makes money off his work, as he fucking should. So I’ll just move on with my day. Been watching the guy on and off for years, haven’t donated to him once so not sure where I’m being grifted lmao.

            Also is this place being brigaded by incels/right wingers? Some of the comments on this post are concerning.

            Edit: nice username and profile pic, I’m a big fan of King Gizzard myself, Infest The Rat’s Nest gets a spin weekly!!!

            • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
              52·
              9 months ago

              This place has a lot of lib/leftist infighting, it’s generally the most left social network in my experience though

            • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
              22·
              9 months ago

              He’s grifting them into not listening when he says “I’m a socialist propagandist”, I guess

        • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
          63·
          9 months ago

          Hasan was quoted by this article because he was notably outspoken about the original gamergate, had the correct take on it, and the current trend is literally just an attempt at relitigating those same issues.

          Here’s an exercise for you: can you name a single person on the planet that would more appropriate to quote on this issue than Hasan, and why?

          Even if I accept and agree with the position in your comment, there isn’t.

          • [email protected]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            45·
            9 months ago

            Anita Sarkeesian. Ja Rule might also have some deep personal insight into the video game bigotry pipeline. He’s a face and personality I respect.

            • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
              54·
              9 months ago

              I think in your rush to namedrop someone else involved you maybe neglected to consider whether that’s actually the case. Anita went into hiding and gamers don’t know who she is anymore

              • [email protected]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                22·
                9 months ago

                I get the not so vague feeling of contrarianism and I honestly dig it. Lemmy’s inability to keep sticks away from posteriors is exhausting.

                • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
                  34·
                  9 months ago

                  Hasan was the biggest driving force behind anti-gamergate sentiment originally and that deserves to not be disrespected in the comments because of some unrelated gripe you have with him that is founded on a logical farce, that’s it

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          9 months ago

          People can choose to not donate to him. Also he does plenty of fundraisers.

          Grifting is a strong word for someone that is very well educated and doesn’t just pick the mainstream position in every subject because it’s easy.

          The man does good work let him earn some money from it.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    42·
    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    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.

    “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.

    “All I can think of is the awful track record of the FBI when it comes to identifying extremism,” Hasan Piker, a popular Twitch streamer who often streams while playing video games under the handle HasanAbi, says of the mechanisms.

    The GAO’s investigation, which covers September 2022 to January 2024, was undertaken at the request of the House Homeland Security Committee, which asked the government auditor to examine domestic violent extremists’ use of gaming platforms and social media.

    A 2019 internal intelligence assessment jointly produced by the FBI, DHS, the Joint Special Operations Command, and the National Counterterrorism Center and obtained by The Intercept warns that “violent extremists could exploit functionality of popular online gaming platforms and applications.” The assessment lists half a dozen U.S.-owned gaming platforms that it identifies as popular, including Blizzard Entertainment’s Battle.net, Fortnite, Playstation Xbox Live, Steam, and Roblox.

    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.”

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