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Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns. (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3h ago by chrisdh79
nsci2ece 16 points 1h ago
For context, the employee did literally nothing other than highlight the work of a community member who happened to be black. The employee didn't try to pull any "identity politics" or "wokeness" or whatever the surplus population's latest boogeyman is.
That was enough for a member of the surplus population to spend significant time and energy on a long running harassment campaign.
We see it in other areas too, like when a doctor merely has to recommend vaccination (without any hint about "mandates" or whatever) and the surplus population immediately bombards their phone number with death threats even though there was literally nothing said against anti-vaxxers.
That was enough for a member of the surplus population to spend significant time and energy on a long running harassment campaign.
We see it in other areas too, like when a doctor merely has to recommend vaccination (without any hint about "mandates" or whatever) and the surplus population immediately bombards their phone number with death threats even though there was literally nothing said against anti-vaxxers.
phdoofus 9 points 1h ago
Points for slipping in 'surplus population' multiple times. lol
kitched 3 points 1h ago
Sounds similar to that meteorologist that quit. He got threats after he dared mention climate change was related to the crazy weather $1. Just ghoulish people reacting violently to learning about things they dont like.
GamerFan2012 1 points 34m ago
I thought we were calling them the mayo mafia.
M4err0w 5 points 2h ago
cool... can... can actual people also get a lot of money if they're the target of harassment campaigns maybe?
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also, if that money doesnt go to the employee...
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also, if that money doesnt go to the employee...
CC_Greener 1 points 30m ago
Did you read the article?
>Comer's harassment campaign cost Bungie over $380,000 in the form of investigation costs, "executive protection" for the affected community manager, and lost work when the employee "needed to take time off and curtail his public interactions with Destiny 2 fans."
The other amounts were for legal fees and such.
>Comer's harassment campaign cost Bungie over $380,000 in the form of investigation costs, "executive protection" for the affected community manager, and lost work when the employee "needed to take time off and curtail his public interactions with Destiny 2 fans."
The other amounts were for legal fees and such.
Chikorya -19 points 2h ago
What the fuck
Jakesummers1 14 points 2h ago
What? Don’t behave in a long-running, threatening racist manner, don’t get sued for the long-running, threatening manner racist behavior. Pretty simple
Outrageous-Machine-5 -8 points 2h ago
Why is the company recovering the costs and not the affected employee
Boschala 12 points 2h ago
The article says Bungie spent $389k investigating and tracking the harasser down, providing security for their employee, and paying for time off for work missed due to the harassment campaign. They also built up infrastructure and policies to protect other employees from similar harassment. The remaining costs covered legal expenses and $25k damages.
Jakesummers1 4 points 2h ago
Sadly, we can never expect the average Reddit user to read an article
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