Japan passes revised penal code with harsher punishment for cyberbullying

Re:Japan passes revised penal code with harsher punishment f... by TulliusCicero on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @12:53PM (#31742247)

That's a very strange way of phrasing this. Obviously if you're telling random other people to go kill themselves in a game, you should be banned, same as if you start hurting racial slurs or making threats or other asshole behavior.

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Re:Japan passes revised penal code with harsher punishment f... by cyberlurker on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @06:17PM (#31746724)

I think it’s hard to police this stuff. I could see someone sarcastically saying “kys” for forgetting to buy an item or something. Is it often used for bullying? Yea. I’m not going to draw the line at “kys”, but i don’t think it is as obvious as you make it out to be.

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Re:Japan passes revised penal code with harsher punishment f... by TulliusCicero on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:14PM (#31748034)

I don't think it should be an autoban type of scenario, where if you type it you just get banned instantly. It should be a situation where you can report it, and then an employee can see what the context is, if there's proper logging in the game.

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Re:Japan passes revised penal code with harsher punishment f... by showdeadtest111 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @01:35PM (#31742980)

Maybe in some other games like animal crossing or stardew valley multiplayer. If you haven't played league before you wouldn't understand.

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Re:Japan passes revised penal code with harsher punishment f... by TulliusCicero on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @05:31PM (#31746343)

I have, in fact, played League before. And many other competitive online multiplayer games.

Being an asshole online is unfortunately normalized among many players, which we can see from your comment.

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