The Oasis Consortium wants the internet to be safe.
The Oasis Consortium wants the internet to be safe.
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Oasis Consortium unveils user-safety standards for an ‘ethical internet’

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Oasis Consortium, a nonprofit devoted to making the internet safer, launched its principles for online user safety today.

Tiffany Xingyu Wang, president of Oasis, created the organization to gather thought leaders across social media, gaming, and dating to accelerate the development of an “ethical internet.” The group has unveiled its operating principles, dubbed User Safety Standards for our Digital Future. (Wang will be a speaker at our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 online event on January 26-27).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.