Police are investigating a virtual sexual assault of a girl’s avatar, the chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners has said.

Donna Jones said she had learned that a complaint was made in 2023, triggering a police inquiry.

The virtual incident did not result in physical harm but caused “psychological trauma”, the Daily Mail has reported a source as saying. Police chiefs have called on platforms to do more to protect their users.

The impact of the attack on the girl’s avatar was said to be heightened because of the immersive nature of the VR experience.

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    This was the final straw for me to leave lemmy. I tried to give it a chance, even with all the radical idiots around, but it’s not worth it.

    Lemmy will be known for its extremist users and will never break critical mass.

    If you take the dumbest assholes of reddit and group them up, you get Lemmy.

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      Honestly, I’ve had worst experiences on Reddit. The communities I’m part of are generally pretty chill. But, they’re generally smaller ones with a few users.

      When you end up on bigger communities like this one with a larger user base, you’re bound to find a larger sample of… questionable people with questionable opinions and values. And they’re usually the more vocal ones making it seem like the community is made up of rotten people.

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        It’s not even about this post, it’s mysogynist, isn’t the first time I’ve seen it and won’t be the last.

        It’s that too many people on here fell for conspiracy theories, are believing things too easy and also have very radicalised mindsets. Just one example, I read some “thought police” bullshit comments on here way too often and in every topic. Also all the questionable sources I see on here that only get questioned when it doesn’t fit the narrative. I’ve had a past with conspiracy theories and I notice a lot of people eating them up on here. There’s no nuance in the comments, just extreme opinions. There’s also a lot of antisemitism on here thinly pretending to be critics to Israel, while commenting on disinformation posts sourced by Qatari government. When Formula 1 is in Qatar they flip their shit, when the source is from a Qatari state owned source, they rush to uncritically believe it.

        What’s the biggest community on here anyways, 50k? That is already incredibly small and shouldn’t be as extreme as it is, unless the base line has lost their marbles.

        The sorting algos in the comments also make it too easy to manipulate old and established posts that are already kind of dead, turning them from extreme left to far right in the visible spots. Sure, extreme left is better than extreme right, but generally extremism is a mind virus and I don’t want to surround myself with it.

        I don’t like it here, and I don’t think I will go out of my way to search for tiny places that are acceptable enough to excuse this.

        Have a nice day.

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        I clearly didn’t mean the commenter calling the horrible comments out, it was a follow up.

        But thanks for confirming that the dumbest assholes and most easily impressionable users of reddit are here.

        People here have the same resistance to disinformation and propaganda as the MAGA crowd. You will follow and believe every bullshit source as long as it fits your narrative. (Not related to this post, it’s a general observation I made)

        You guys are getting radicalised and it’s so unbelievably easy.