Peter Hook
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The Platform For Teens That Endorsed Racism
For those of you who are less familiar with the game, which became rather prominent within recent years for their lack of child care and protection of younger users; featuring an investigation by Channel4 Habbo is a global virtual community, targetting teens. In August 2014 Habbo was subject to a mass investigation by Channel4, which exposed the vulnerability of young users to potential child predators. This was extremely prominent throughout the digital industry, marking an important lesson for the importance of user security and protection. This led to the 'Great Mute', as referred to by users, which saw the game enter a lockdown, so to say, in which all users were unable to speak to one another, notiably an essentially aspect of any social media. None the less more recently Habbo has undergone growing media attention through the means of the Economist, Wired Magazine and the New York Times, in which Habbo was exposed for the #SaveHabbo movement and the lack of support from their userbase, following the release of their new update named 'Habbo2020', in response to the closure of Flash, which the game previously ran on.
By Peter Hook3 years ago in Gamers