Shortly after Facebook shifted its focus to the Metaverse, it renamed itself Meta. Then came news of persistent sexual harassment reported by women who ventured into the Metaverse using female avatars. While some people suggested it was harmless (it’s all simulations, right?), others said that even today’s crude graphics were enough to make the harassment real enough for women. Meta’s response was the urgent deployment of a security bubble around an avatar. This was transparent but impervious to rupture. The female avatar was now safe.

It was a good version 1.0, but 2 problems arose. The first is that the Predator is not punished. He just walks away to find other women to annoy. And the original female victim will probably eventually want to bubble down on her so she can…