I hope this shit ends as with "muh cyberviolence" fiasco.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/10/un-agency-backtracks-expresses-regret-over-cyberviolence-report/On Wednesday, a United Nations agency that published a report about "cyber violence against women and girls" formally retracted that report following criticism from the likes of games industry lobbyists and advocates for online abuse victims.
The September 24 report, issued by the International Telecommunication Union, was published on the same day that the United Nations hosted a symposium at its New York headquarters that gathered women from across the world to talk about the Internet's potential as a platform for harassment and abuse. The accompanying report touched on those issues, but its accusations about video games as a broader inspiration for violence included messy citations that failed to back up such assertions.
Ultimately, ITU public information chief Sarah Parkes issued an apology to a Vice Motherboard reporter on Wednesday, the same day that the original paper was taken off the UN's site and replaced with a "currently in revision" notice. (As King noted in his takedown piece, the original report can be found archived here.)
"The big problem was footnoting, which was not up to standard and we very much regret that," Parkes said to Motherboard. Parkes then admitted that some of the report's issues were due to "the terrible scramble around the launch date. It was a hugely busy period for the UN. We apologize very much for the errors and I hope we'll be able to rectify them." She suggested that a revised report would be posted "within two weeks."
