Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee
arstechnica.com
Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.

Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.::Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.

  • Meow.tar.gz@lemmy.goblackcat.comEnglish
    654·
    1 year ago

    I think those funds should be given to the employee harmed by the harassment. But somehow I think they’ll just fill Bungie’s coffers.

    • lechatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      1 year ago

      The majority of the settlement is reimbursement.

      Comer’s harassment campaign cost Bungie over $380,000 in the form of investigation costs, “executive protection” for the affected community manager, and lost work when the employee “needed to take time off and curtail his public interactions with Destiny 2 fans.”

      as well as over $80,000 in legal fees and $25,000 in statutory damages

    • XartleEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      Crazy story. Sounds like that wasn’t a punitive amount, that’s how much the cost Bungie. They hired executive protection services for the employee, investigators, lawyers (obviously)…

    • Debrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      Did you read the article? Bungie claim 380K USD as investigation expenses, amd only 25K in statutory damages and then 80K or so in legal fees.

      If they led an investigation themselves then this already is doing a lot in favor of the employee. And possibly means police did not do their job.

      Hopefully this piece of shit won’t retaliate.