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EA to Host GLAAD Panel on Homophobia in Gaming
by Nick Breckon, Jul 14, 2009 7:04pm PDTElectronic Arts will play host to a panel on homophobia in videogame culture organized by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation this Saturday.
Representatives from Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Linden Labs, GayGamer.net and the Entertainment Software Association will be present. Topics will include "how to provide safe spaces for LGBT people online, how to ensure the best policies are in place to prevent virtual attacks against LGBT people and how to educate the users of online communities about the effects of homophobia."
As Gamasutra points out, GLAAD has become increasingly active in the gaming sphere. GLAAD director of digital media recently published an editorial on "The Impact of Homophobia in Virtual Communities."
The event is open to the public, and is being held at EA's headquarters in Redwood City, California from 11am-1pm. More information is available on the GLAAD site.
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It's wrong to have a panel on just homophobia. The problem is MUCH MUCH MUCH bigger. Xenophobia of all sorts: bulling of girls, bulling of blacks, stupid religious comments, etc, etc, etc.
I think game companies need to start tracking those offenses and bring offenders to public display. They need to track IPs, and then introduce an option of recording conversations and reporting them to proper authorities. This is very easy to implement. Then offenders could be punished by law, and their parents and teachers in school will be ashamed.
Gaming introduced the whole new social world. It is time to make it civilized.
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