The metaverse groping problem

• Is virtual harassment, such as digital groping, the same as real-world sexual harassment?

The hosts dig into a technologyreview.com article reporting that the metaverse "has a groping problem already": Aaron Stanton's 2016 Quiver account of being virtually groped by another player, Ohio State researcher Jesse Fox on virtual harassment, and a long debate over whether digital groping is the same as real-world sexual harassment or whether calling it that cheapens the real thing.