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UN rights council condemns the disruption of internet access
The United Nations Human Rights Council has had enough of state-sponsored attempts to restrict internet access and punish people who use the internet as a space for free expression. The council on Friday passed a resolution that reaffirms and expands its previous stances upholding internet rights across the globe, noting, "The same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular freedom of expression." Today's resolution is non-binding, but it can be used as support in future cases of online human-rights violations.
EA scores 100% in LGBT equality, named 'Best Place to Work' by HRC
Looking from the outside, EA might not be the Internet's favorite company. But on the inside, apparently not everything is doom, gloom and CEOs laughing maniacally while wringing their hands in cartoonishly evil delight. The company recently scored a 100 percent for workplace equality and was named one of the Best Places To Work for LGBT Equality in the US by the Human Rights Campaign. So, what does it mean to score a 100 percent by the HRC? According to the organization's 2014 Corporate Equality Index, a company must: prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or expression, offer partner health or medical insurance; have parity across other "soft" benefits for partners, offer transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage; have firm-wide organizational competency programs, have an employer-supported employee resource group or firm-wide diversity council, and positively engage the external LGBT community. It was that last criteria in which EA made the most headlines this year - the company participated in multiple Pride Parades, hosted Full Spectrum and was an official sponsor of GaymerX. This marks the second year in a row EA has earned a perfect score from the HRC.
EA addresses LGBT issues in gaming in first ever 'Full Spectrum' event
At the Ford Foundation in upper Manhattan this morning, representatives from inside and outside the game industry spoke to the issues that LGBT gamers face and how best to fix them in the first ever "Full Spectrum" event. From online interactions filled with offensive language to games that don't represent LGBT relationships, those issues are myriad and varied. It's an unprecedented event, actually -- despite the wide-ranging demographics of gaming in the modern world, no such event has been held before, nonetheless hosted by one of the game industry's largest publishers (Electronic Arts teamed with the Ford Foundation and the Human Rights Campaign for today's event). As Entertainment Software Association VP of media and events Dan Hewitt reminded attendees during the first panel, the game industry is an (annual) $24 billion business that spans 50 percent of American homes, and the average gamer is 31-years-old. So why are we still seeing such an underrepresentation of diversity in gaming, despite a diversity of gamers?%Gallery-181057%
