Compensation for Owners of PG Land

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Like in "Fcuk yourself and your sub silly with our hawt new BDSM HUD" ??? Is an accurate, descriptive and to the point advertisement.

Fcuk is permitted speech (content) on M-rated land. So is BDSM. I dont think Fcuk is going to be permitted in M-rated advertising in any context. If it isnt then two different standards are being applied here, one for land and one for advertising. And if so then Mr Jack Linden as Mainland Estate Manager should recognise this when people apply to move. Hope so anyways.

I'd have had a much more predictable experience if I'd never found out what that meant, indeed I would have it wasn't for this stupid fecking policy!

*hands you a brown bag.

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The Libertarian party isn't very libertarian any more. The nomination of Bob Barr led to quite an outcry of selling out. And ads are neither force nor fraud unless they make false claims about a product.

I guess the Knowledge Base should be renamed Disinformation Base. Perhaps it could be merged with the Encyclopedia Dramatica.

I meant.. how often do women (a) try to go topless in those establishments and (b) try to fight it when they are tossed out by a life guard.

Although the bill of rights (or charter here in Canada) is a separate document, isn't it considered constitutional law, or at least thought of as such? My understanding of the concept of constitutions is that they embody the 'deeper principles' of a nation that are considered sufficiently strong, they are protected and much harder to modify.

If you are arguing against a particular regulation on the grounds that 'government meddling' generally is bad, don't you have to be consistant and apply the same attitude to all regulation?

agreed... Whatever the Libertarian Party has morphed into, it sure doesn't represent what it is I believe in.

From what I see... The "PG" examples given so far are grandfathered content from a time long past. Please give me some PG (Not PG-13, that's a different rating) examples from this generation. (=_=)

I'm not sure liberarian politics survived the transformation into a cohesive political party. At least here in Oregon, Libertarians seem to have a "Do anything you want, don't pay taxes, and don't expect basic needs of society like education and healthcare to be met while we're in charge, either." Yeah, no thanks. If I wanted to live in that kind of nightmare world, I'd move to Mexico.

So yea. I believe in education - but having choice over education. I believe in healthcare, but having choice over healthcare, and I understand that taxes are necessary, but I believe in taxes being spent in a transparent accountable manner, with as much control to the taxpayer as possible where that money goes.

Even in socialist Sweden, there's nothing stopping folks from picking their own doctor (or even one in a private practice instead of the government health system). There's nothing from stopping you from sending your kids to private school or a private university. As far as accountability, there's nothing stopping you from going to your state capitol and sitting in on legislative sessions, or visiting with your congressperson and expressing your concerns (Protip: If you're in Oregon, consider spending time at Magoo's Bar when congress is in session. It's within a drunken stumbling distance of the capitol building's legislative entrance and popular among the lawmakers, and most of 'em are entirely different people in person than on camera).

Even in socialist Sweden, there's nothing stopping folks from picking their own doctor (or even one in a private practice instead of the government health system). There's nothing from stopping you from sending your kids to private school or a private university.

In other words, Linden Lab PG mainland is now restricted to content equivalent to that of a G-rated movie. This was not what PG land was sold as. LL's new "PG is G" definitions serve to significantly reduce the value of PG land.

The current PG definition indicates that it is similar to the MPAA definitions. However the new one explicitly bans alcohol, smoking and drug abuse. However, compare this to studies of G-rated movies. The following link is to a somewhat dated study but is still interesting and valid

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/afilm.html

47% of films they randomly selected from 1937 and 2000 included alcohol, with Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty and Fantasia in the top five.

43% of films they randomly selected included smoking with 101 Dalmations and Alice in Wonderland in the top five.

An Alice in Wonderland themed sim would be an interesting case study, with the smoking caterpillar, symbolism of the potion and the mushroom, the violent duchess and queen, etc. it would not meet the stringent PG restriction of not including "any content that is suggestive of any (even mildly) sexual or violent themes, or references to social drug or alcohol usage." so again under LL's definitions Alice in Wonderland would automatically be "mature".

Yes, but what I'm saying is you give the US constitution credit, where credit is not due. Antidiscrimination law isn't a part of our constitution unless you're going to count women's sufferage. It's not something we've been able to get a two thirds majority and a constitutional convention to protect.

I'm not sure it's quite safe to equate constitutional law with an unpopular business decision.

Hey All,

There has been a tremendous outcry about the PG definitions and how it appears in the KB article that they will be affected in all of this as well. This was never the case and I apologize for the team that it came across this way.

I just want to say that there will be NO changes to the old definition of PG. We'll revisit this document internally and make the corrections.

@ Matthew -- this was posted earlier today on that thread, and was reposted by Argent on this one:

You might have thought therefore that LL may have taken that in consideration before they released the updated definitions.

I'm just a bit south of Sweden... and yeah, private healthcare gives you more choices at least in Germany than the government plans.

But lately it has gotten much harder to choose your healthcare, it is much harder to choose private plans now, they are forcing people back into substandard national healthcare who do not want to have it and can pay for private.

To me, this is not right.

The Libertarian party isn't very libertarian any more. The nomination of Bob Barr led to quite an outcry of selling out. And ads are neither force nor fraud unless they make false claims about a product.