A Future 2 participant who doxxed and harassed a Bungie group supervisor has been discovered answerable for practically $500,o00 in damages and charges, in a beautiful instance of fucking round and discovering out.
Based on the official Washington State courtroom order, shared on Twitter by paralegal Kathryn Tewson, Jesse James Comer (who Tewson calls a “racist shitstain of a human being,” and lady, preach) went on a doxxing and harassment marketing campaign of a Bungie group supervisor not lengthy after that CM (who we is not going to identify right here) highlighted the work of a Black Future 2 creator.
The courtroom paperwork state that Comer, who lives in West Virginia, added a brand new quantity to an nameless texting and calling service earlier than leaving a “hideous, bigoted voicemail” on what seems to be the Bungie worker’s private telephone. Comer “repeatedly requested that the [employee] persuade Bungie to create choices in its sport wherein solely individuals of coloration could be killed.” Comer then began leaving equally aggressive and racist voicemails for the Bungie worker’s spouse.
However since males with fragile egos and an excessive amount of time to spend on the web know no bounds, Comer didn’t cease there. He escalated his harassment marketing campaign by exhibiting the Bungie worker that he knew the place they lived. He ordered a “nearly inedible, odiferous pizza” from Domino’s, set it to money on supply, and put within the notes that the supply driver “knock a minimum of 5 occasions” as a result of the particular person receiving the supply could be carrying headphones.
Comer then bragged about his habits in a Steam group referred to as “terr0rgang,” which “maintains a set of sound information and noises labeled as ‘ear rape’ and permits its customers to make the most of these information as part of their terror campaigns.” Comer used these audio information in voicemails simply two hours after sending the Bungie worker and their spouse the pizza.
Based on the courtroom order, “Bungie was compelled to take costly measures to guard the Does from the menace posed by Comer (who, at that time, remained unknown and nameless).” The corporate despatched out “government safety” inside an hour of the “pizza assault,” and employed investigators and out of doors counsel to try to determine Comer.
All the things Bungie did to guard its worker was costly, and now Comer has to pay the value in line with this courtroom order. This isn’t simply an necessary case for Bungie and its worker but additionally for victims of on-line harassment at massive. As Tewson wrote on Twitter: “The regulation strikes slowly, frankly; rather more slowly than both know-how or tradition. With this win, we helped to shut that hole in some vital methods.”
Might this be a warning to all of the racist fuckboys in video video games: Be ready to pay up.