• Hegar@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    38
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    Before anyone rushes to judgement about “suing ‘Call of Duty’”:

    Families of the Uvalde victims have filed a lawsuit against Daniel Defense, the makers of the AR-15 assault rifle, and Activision, the publisher of the first-person shooter video game series “Call of Duty,” and Meta, the parent company of Instagram, over what they claim was their role in promoting the gun used in the shooting.

    The suit alleges the companies partnered to market the weapon to underage boys in the games and on social media.

    They’re alleging the AR-15 maker, activision and meta played a role in aggressively promoting the gun to underage boys. This isn’t ‘video games caused columbine’. Stealth marketing guns to kids is maybe not great. Meta’s whole thing is shady intrusively targeted marketing. Everyone knows that Activision is capable of some truly scummy behaviour. I’m not 100% sold but that it seems worth hearing out to me.

    • Fal@yiffit.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      6 months ago

      What do you mean. This is exactly the same thing as violent video games caused calumbine

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      6 months ago

      Do you know where a lot of these military video games get a lot of their funding? If you guessed the Department of Defense you win! If anyone is to blame it’s the United States government.