Does anyone live in Cherry Hill, NJ? Dangers of a Virtual World presentation tonight

No "Still" about it. Just another self important windbag "intellectual" trying to convince people he knows something they don't. Nothing but 100% USDA Prime Bullshit.

Who the Hell are you?

Hey!!! Watch it lady, or we self important windbag intellectuals are going to AR you! And expose you and your filthy preverted coohorts to a shocked (and fully conscious) public!

I'd have a root canal before I'd waste my time listening to that drivel.

Besides, the only notbook I own is spiral bound and all I have is Blackberry wine.

Sure, they could have a good presentation about protecting your identity, the near complete lack of consumer protection in SL, there's TSL for children and the like.

I get the idea it's going to be more like a field trip to a Yiff dungeon, and half the audience squirming in their seats thinking "that's hot".

Worse. This is a police officer giving the presentation.



And for the record, I am not in favor of stopping him, but I am strongly in favor of mocking him. However, if it does focus on preventing bullying and harassment in virtual worlds, I am in favor. The sensationalist coverage however makes me skeptical.



There's more of him quoted at http://www.10news.com/news/18028483/detail.html which includes his warnings of ageplay, S&M, and the scientific figure that 50% of SL residents are there for sex.

No problem at all with free speech, except when it is a taxfeeder doing it on my dime.

He obviously hasn't spent any quality time in SL, or he'd have a much more realistic figure.* And how much cybersex has he been having while on the payroll of the Park Ridge PD?

*I leave it to reader to decide whether "more realistic" means higher or lower, and I should also note that approximately 42.3% of all statistics are complete fabrications.

"Your Testicles and You".

I wonder if he is going to bring his own ominous music with him.

What the hell is he doing in Cherry Hill if we works in Park Ridge? That's on the opposite end of the State, near the New York border. He should be acting like an idiot in his own county.

Hmmmm.

Well, the 50% of us are here for sex thing is a bit silly. (I wonder which 50% of me wants THAT?) And the whole focus on RL kiddies in SL is something of a red herring, that is presumably just playing a riff of the whole Rep. Kirk thing.

But anyone care to take issue, factually speaking, with the rest of this?

*Gasp!* *Shudder!* *Murmur, Murmur!*


Perhaps even one who works as a Police Officer.

Someone remind Chief Wiggum that children aren't supposed to be is SL.



Even if that were true, so what. They are adults. If that is what people use SL for, whose business is it other than theirs?

Any children here are breaking the rules. When found they are banned. Also calling everyone under 18 a child is nothing but a word game. 16 and 17 year olds are not children.

Drug use? I wouldn't trust any "technique" I learned on SL for making meth. Anyway, those recipes are common on the interwebz.


Child/adult sex.......banned whenever and where ever it is found.

Bestiality, sex, suicide, etc.............Welcome to the interwebz. Try typing any of these into Google.

The 10 y/o AV is really a 50 y/o truck driver named Earl...........Who cares?

Typical internet scaremongering.

While some of the statements may be factually correct, at least on the surface, they don't exactly "shock the unconscious" and are at best weasel wording.

"It's very possible that what appears to be a 10-year-old avatar could be controlled by a 50-year-old man."

Really? In the immortal words (er, word) of Peter Gabriel, "So?". What do you expect, that it's a 10-year old in a virtual world where 10-year olds are not allowed?

""There is sexual abuse, torture, rape," he says."

Incomplete, as he left the word "roleplay" out of it. Either that, or this police officer does not know the definition of the word "rape".

Officer Barbrady needs to go back to his day job of ticketing jaywalkers or whatever the hell it is he does in Park Ridge.

Like I said earlier, it could be a good idea if it dealt with real safety concerns in Second Life. It appears Barney Fife took the low road and decided to address the lurid but comparatively harmless aspects of SL.

At least Andy would smack Barney down before he got this out of hand.

Well, "who cares" is another issue. And I agree, of course, that SL is not in any of these regards very different from anything else on the internet -- with the exception. primarily, of the element of role play.

I don't disagree with most of what you say here, Chris. I'm just pointing out that our "police officer" doesn't seem to me to be as poorly informed as some are suggesting.

Yep. I agree that this is all not very well or precisely expressed. And there probably is an element of "fear mongering" at work here. But this is also not quoted from his actual presentation, but from a very brief blurb put together by a news station, so I wouldn't condemn his approach purely on this basis.

I am quite willing to accept that there might be holes in his approach that you can drive a truck through. Again, however, I'd want to hear what HE actually has to say before merely dismissing it.

I would be interested in how long he has spent in world. What did he search for. Did he reveal that he was an undercover government employee? If not, why not? Did he engage in child/adult sex? If so, will he face charges?

HA! I was going to post the exact same thing, Kat!

Seriously, I wondered if our OP had inadvertently committed the typo...but when I checked the actual site, sure enough: "shock the conscious".

No doubt this is a precursor of the level of quality of the presentation.

And the biggest question of all...What Political Office does he have plans on running for in the near future.

I don't think you can make it to Jersey in time.

That may be exactly it: our good officer is just trying to get a little exposure with his travelling SL freak show so he can get the hell out of Mayberry. I mean, wouldn't you?