The Metaverse Groping Problem
HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY The metaverse has a groping problem already A woman was sexually harassed on Meta’s VR She’s not the first—and won’t be the last. By Tanya Basu December 16, 2021
A screenshot of a MIT Technology Review article about sexual harassment in Meta’s virtual reality metaverse, paired with an image of a woman wearing a VR headset. The joke is the uncomfortable contrast between futuristic metaverse hype and the real-world problem of harassment, making it useful as a sarcastic reaction to technology failing in familiar human ways.
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- @eternalclassic / 5170 2021-12-18
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- sarcastic, uncomfortable
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