Judge Orders TextNow to Reveal Identities of Users Who Threatened Bungie Employees
Way back in 2001, Bungie released Halo: Combat Evolved. While it wasn't the company's first game it was the project that really put it on the map. The developer would follow the game up withHalo 2, Halo 3, Halo: ODST, and Halo: Reach. Bungie then split off from Microsoft to make the Destiny series which has also proven to be a successful franchise.
Over the past few months, Bungie has been launching a series of lawsuits to protect its employees. Specifically, the company has been suing people with harassers and game cheaters being the main target of Bungie's litigation efforts. In some instances, however, the employees of the company are apparently taking matters into their own hands, launching a lawsuit independent of the developer.
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The circumstances of this lawsuit started in early June when a Bungie employee tweeted an advertisement for Destiny 2 with two videos that feature a gamer known as Uhmaayze. The ads themselves call the individual, who was African American, a hero. Soon after a campaign of doxxing against the company began and the identities of the employees were revealed. Employees then began receiving death threats on their personal phones, images of their company badges were posted on the internet, racial slurs were thrown at them, and, in one case, someone actually had a pizza delivered to an employee's house. All of these events severely distressed the company's employees.
Lately, Bungie, and earlier this summer two of the company's employees, sued the owners of the TextNow app for the identities of the users who threatened them. TextNow is an app that allows users to make phone calls and send text messages anonymously. However, the app
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