Court Filings Detail Threats And Harassment Against Bungie Employees
Employees of Destiny 2 developer Bungie recently scaled back their social media communication in response to threats and harassment, and now court filings in Canada have revealed just how intense those threats were.
According to a report from the Waterloo Region Record, in June an Ontario judge ordered Canadian anonymous phone service provider TextNow Inc. to release the name of customers who made «racist and serious physical threats» against Bungie employees. The ruling details some of the threats made against two Bungie employees, which included doxxing, harassing tweets, racist phone calls, and threats of violence.
The Record's report states that the harassment started following a tweet on the official Destiny 2 Twitter account which included a video featuring Twitch streamer Uhmaayyze, who often freestyle raps while he plays Destiny. Superior court judge Fred Myers said in the ruling that, following the tweet, Bungie employees were doxxed and harassed, with one anonymous person sending threats to kill Bungie employees to Bungie Twitter accounts.
«Shortly after, several employees of Bungie began receiving voice mails and text messages on personal, unpublished telephone numbers repeatedly using the racial slur referred to colloquially as the 'N-word,'» the judge said.
Harassing and threatening phone calls continued for one Bungie employee and harassers also sent texts to the phone of their spouse, the ruling said, while also ordering pizza to the employee's home, revealing that the harasser had uncovered their home address. That raised the concern that the harasser might try to «swat» the Bungie employee. Swatting involves making false reports are made to police in an attempt to provoke them into sending an armed
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