FOX News is gonna RUIN SL with this video!

God, you're a b*tch.

Not that these outfits are great, or FOX or MSNBC either, but in this case they are reporting news about a congresssmen. it's not these news shows making this up.

Stop you right there.....no.

So what is wrong with parents doing the following:
* setting up a child's account on a computer so they can not install software with out the parent knowing what it is
* setting up the computer so the child can not go online with out the parent's permission and supervision
* installing a filter, or at least setting google and the like to safe search only

simple things...

I'm not the one hating this congressman for trying to do his job. Yes parents are pushing them to protect kids from porn.

Nothing is wrong with that, except you wanted to add, criminal charges for kids and parents---and refuse to hear that SL needs to come up with real age verification--and say its all just the parent's fault and those who beneift financially from Porn, are fine...and a congressman is somehow wrong mentioning Second Life as a major concern.

This .pdf file says it quite clearly as to what is needed:

SL is working on a far stringent age verification system, currently in BETA

Your dreams your imagination.

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I like that the news lady even wanted him to shutup.

'Thank you congr-' and I'm worried 'Yes, thank you, congressman.'

Hee you caught that too. I didn't want to be mean and mention it... but when a fox news reporter wants you to shut up already on a topic... you know they got the ratings boosting bit and want the ranting to end

Ugh ...Ok...look MortVent...now I now you are not the most experienced person in the world, but srsly, its' PARENTS that are screaming to the congress to do something. It takes about 5 minutes to blow the whistle on SL. A kid can go into SL and in a very short time can be taking screenshots of themselves having sex with a donkey and messanging the image to all their friends.

I think the adult content in SL is part of SL, and I'd hate to see it whisked away by over zealous and heavy handed government officials, but truth be told, Kids CAN get into it easy and FOR FREE and this needs to stop, unless you want SL to be dragged through the most terrible kind of mud that makes society think ALL SL people are crazy and sick predators waiting around the prim trees.

Maybe someone will get a bright idea as to how to solve the problem, but one thing for sure is, putting it on parents as the sole responsiblity here, means parents calling their elected officials and telling them what their kids tell them about SL and what they know of themselves.

Keep in mind that without Washington, nothing gets done in terms of network stuff on a large scale and cleaning up the internet and making sure online games aren't full of porn that kids can see----and in SL "porn" is no longer just photos or videos and mere chats----it's interactive, squirting, messy, masturbatory, anonymous, violent, obsessive, spamming, stalking, and a peep show to boot......IT WILL TAKE AN ACT OF CONGRESS....to get these tech companies to fix it and still please the majority of people who do not want their privacy invaded in the process. It will take actual ingenuity and the force of laws to get it to happen.

SL has a big sign on it's figurative, forehead saying:

"Step right up, all you freaks, this is your brave new world. Live your fantasies. And even make money scamming naive people. Even kids can log in for free"

Ah,... hello? Anyone not able to foresee how that will turn out on the Local News?

You want the parents involved. so do I, but real parental involvement means getting congress to do something about Porn sites and Porn Games, that make it easy for kids to get in and people making money off porn (LL included, Server companies included, GOOGLE included....etc.) $$$business people$$$ who are trying to deny responsibility for all this are full of you know what.

Nothing is wrong with that, except you wanted to add, criminal charges for kids and parents---and refuse to hear that SL needs to come up with real age verification--and say its all just the parent's fault and those who beneift financially from Porn, are fine...and a congressman is somehow wrong mentioning Second Life as a major concern.

This .pdf file says it quite clearly as to what is needed:

This sounds like empty political promises to me. It says there is existing fool proof technology that will keep children safe from on line pornography but it doesn't say what this technology is. It's hard for me to believe that such technology exists. If it did obviously it would be in the best interests of LL and others to implement it; the people who invented it would be rich. I can't imagine how it could possibly work and a quick Google search does not locate any reference to it.

None of those address the important issues that is caused by the internet... let me put it another way.


If these laws are enacted, what stops all the companies from simply moving overseas where the laws are no longer applicable to them because they are not in the countries using the laws?

And said credit card verification fails when little johnny gets big johnny's credit card information...

And you hit one thing about the internet - it gives people limited anonymity to a point. What happens when your personal data is lost by said paid service with sites accessed? I imagine it being quite useful for destroying people's reputations

Besides who decides what sites are adult content?

Me, you, a group of fundamentalists, or a bunch of hippies? Whose morality will be used to try to legislatively censor the internet... and fail (The medium can not be legislated by one country... unless all countries actually agree to it. With some becoming open data havens, not likely to happen )

And nothing is inevitable other than companies slamming such laws down with lawyers like they do the foolish game laws that have been enacted for people screaming "think of the children" while listening to fear mongering.

Yeah, credit card fails when Johnny gets dads CC, but what about Pete, Harry & Sally who can't get Dads CC or get caught by their parents trying to use it?
Compare that to the "click this if you are over 18" verification system we use now, what happens when all the above kids all click that box and get in? Does the law magically know and drag them from their respective contires into a USA court under charges of US law? I don't think so.
Door locks don't stop all theft but do a damn lot better job than a crayon picture of a lock does.
If I tagged my land as adult access only, I want LL to have taken pretty good steps to ensure those Avatars who can enter are adults, I wouldn't want to rely on a "click if you are 18" system and other peoples good parenting supervision.

Second Life Shocking!
Thanks for your shocking piece on this awful Second Life game! Having children myself, I had no idea if left unsupervised my children could be exposed to such terrible stuff on the internet!!!!
Now, I keep my computer locked in the attic, surrounded by an electrical field and force my children to wear shock collars just in case. I've made it a game by telling the children the Ice Queen, the Boogie Man and Gay Couples who want equal rights live in our attic so they stay away. Thanks!!!!!

Being a concerned parent myself I sent a personal message to Republican Congressman Mark Kirk thanking him for revealing this shockingly shocking shockpose...shockingly.



Of course, he's Republican so he'll probably take this literally though.

Couldn't find a post written on this subject within the last year to comment on?

Cirian, you're mixing parental responsiblity with Linden Lab's responsibility. Yes they state that the adult grid is for adults 18 years old or older and that if you are 13 to 17 you can join the teen grid. They have safeguards in place to make it difficult for the average adult in enter the teen grid.........they do not make it even a challenge for the children to get into the adult grid. That is what makes that agrument irrelevant.

I'm not agruing that parents need to keep their own children safe from predaters........and yes they are out there (even in SL, I'm afraid). I'm simply saying that the news video did not state one false "fact". Not mentioning that adult grid is for 18+ is not lying.........the fact is that there is nothing to enforce the "rule" so it might as well not be there. Not mentioning that there is a teen grid......gee, it was not about the teen grid. It was about the SL adult grid. No reason whatsoever to mention something that the news article is not about.

Again, tell me where a lie was told.

Well, to start with, he calls Second Life a social networking site and implies that it's available over publicly accessible computers.

Another thing, Second Life has more hurdles to jump than a typical Pron site.

What REALLY pisses me off about these videos, is that they're full of misinformation, and there's never a response section where people who actually know how it all works can make corrections