{"id":7043,"date":"2019-03-03T21:53:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T21:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2019-03-03T21:53:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T21:53:42","slug":"racism-misogyny-death-threats-why-cant-the-booming-video-game-industry-curb-toxicity-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7043","title":{"rendered":"Racism, misogyny, death threats: Why can\u2019t the booming video-game industry curb toxicity? \u2013 Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/2019\/02\/28\/racism-misogyny-death-threats-why-cant-the-booming-video-game-industry-curb-toxicity\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/toxic2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley is reprinting a story from the Washington post, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/racism-misogyny-death-threats-why-cant-the-booming-video-game-industry-curb-toxicity\">Racism, misogyny, death threats: Why can\u2019t the booming video-game industry curb toxicity?<\/a> <\/em>The story is one more on how nasty online gaming can be. The usual companies try to reduce the toxicity of game culture and don&#8217;t really succeed. So we are left to just ignore it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With no clear methods to effectively monitor, halt or eliminate toxic behavior, many in the gaming community have simply tried to ignore it and continue playing anyway. Many of the titles cited most for toxic players remain the industry\u2019s most popular.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley is reprinting a story from the Washington post, Racism, misogyny, death threats: Why can\u2019t the booming video-game industry curb toxicity? The story is one more on how nasty online gaming can be. The usual companies try to reduce the toxicity of game culture and don&#8217;t really succeed. So we are left to just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7043\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racism, misogyny, death threats: Why can\u2019t the booming video-game industry curb toxicity? \u2013 Silicon Valley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7046,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions\/7046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}