UploadVR has a big sexual harassment problem

[flyinj]

It came out a few months ago that UploadVR had multiple women suing them for sexual harassment:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/15/u...or-in-the-workplace-and-wrongful-termination/

Since then, there hasn't been a peep about it out of the company. There was a vague letter sent out by the founders, but apparently they settled every case out of court.

Last week, RoadToVR did a followup on the allegations and UploadVR's response:

https://www.roadtovr.com/community-fallout-uploadvr-harassment-settlement-bearing-witness-testimony/

Then, almost immediately after that article was published, several sexual harassment allegations were made against Robert Scoble, a well known tech journalist and UploadVR's "entrepreneur in residence":

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/20/r...d-to-sexually-harass-women-after-going-sober/

Scoble then issued and "apology" letter, which is one of the craziest gaslighting things I've read in a long time. He basically said that every woman who accused him lacked morals and were all crazy (and one of them knew kung-fu!):

https://scobleizer.blog/2017/10/25/no-of-that-im-innocent-sexual-harassment-assault-accusations/

And to add on to all of this, UploadVR published this bizarre editorial defending Palmer Luckey's nefarious funding of alt-right organizations:

https://uploadvr.com/fake-news-happens-reporting-palmer-luckey-nimble-america/

They also continue to be the only major VR news site that continuously interviews and covers Palmer.

There is something very wrong at UploadVR.

 

[reptilescorpio]

Wow lot of stuff going on over there. That blog by Scoble sure goes into a lot of detail for someone told by his lawyer not to make a statement.

 

[Jackpot]

None of the women who came forward were ever in a position where I could make or break their careers. Sexual Harassment requires that I have such power.

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Sarah Seitz and I had an online affair. I am a married man. She knew this, and didn't care.

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And to some extent my online affair did take advantage of Seitz; I hate to be the person who outs Seitz for her own abuse, but that was what we connected over primarily. We talked a great deal about how each of us dealt with abuse and how it impacted our sex lives.

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Quinn Norton, by her own account, physically accosted me. She didn't call for conference security, she didn't know the name of the woman I was making out with to know if we were engaged in a consensual activity. In her account of the night, she took it upon herself to decide in advance that she was going to warn me she was dangerous, and then physically attack me without knowing the story of my earlier makeout. If two drunk married people want to make out on the beach it may be a bad decision, (It was a bad decision on my part) but it was our bad decision to make. While it is admirable that Quinn wanted to defend the honor of another woman and the sanctity of marriage, perhaps she should have done so using the resources of the conference, or at a minimum in a manner that didn't lead to her assaulting me. Quinn, who is a reporter, didn't report this story for years, and she didn't run the story in her capacity as a reporter, she chose social media with no bar for truth, and requirement that her story pass a fact check. Quinn who purports to be a champion against sexism was strangely silent. She sat on her allegations for more than 5 years. Her recall of the night seems unlikely due to her great detail including quotes, but without the names of any of the participants but myself. Most telling however is that she makes it clear that her assault of me was premeditated. She planned to separate me from the woman I was making out with, she planned to scare me, and she planned to use her martial arts training to injure me.

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Now, that's an asshole.

 

[tino]

So this is about Robert Scoble? You might want to put his name on the title.