Verge: “Game developer pranks player after he threatens to shoot up studio” (Katherine Lo quoted)

June 7, 2018

Katherine Lo, an online harassment researcher at the University of California Irvine, says it’s important to remember that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to threats and harassment — and that in many cases, this may not be the right one. “I worry that the message being projected here is that this is the ideal way to handle threats, or that no threat should be interpreted as genuine. In many cases that’s not a viable option,” says Lo.

Read the full story at The Verge.