FOX News is gonna RUIN SL with this video!

geez..i didnt see that..lol..im not a good detective, am i?

We aren't afraid, at least i'm not, it's simply i don't care about kids.

We've been kids too and one thing i know is that kids love challenges.
You won't be able to lock out someone that want badly in, in kid's case it's even more thrilling for them because it is explicitly forbidden.

Another congressman trying to justify his salary?

I suck at naming threads. No way it would have been obvious to you. lol

At the time this was not a Fox news story, so your's is more timely now. I was only pointing that other thread out for some of the commentary that is going on about children being penaized.

And your pervert bro will fit in very nicely with the rest of us.

No it's not irrelevant at all. They're talking about issuing parents a warning about a world that clearly states it's 18+. How the heck is omitting the fact that it is 18+ irrelevant? They are talking about sexual predators and protecting kids in a world that kids are lying to get inside of. Sorry, myspace, facebook, bebo, places where adults and kids mix readily are far more dangerous for kids.

Absolving parental responsibility yet again and not mentioning that kids have to lie to be on the main grid, unlike myspace, facebook and bebo. Omitting the fact that there's a special grid for kids, with checks and balances, it's an absurd misrepresentation.

What are they going to warn parents about? You see that place your kids go, the one with 18+ on the signup page, ummm kids under 18 shouldn't go there.

This meth lab is so ugly...

Standby for huge influx of horny teenage boys who have parents watching Fox News.....

This is really true of the world in general, children can be exposed to all sorts of "hazards" just by being alive. The fact still remains that it is the PARENTS job to instill in their children right from wrong, its their job to teach them that the things they see and experience have meaning and what those meanings are. We can allow the government to raise our children or we can do it ourselves, besides, it doesnt matter how many locks the government or anyone else puts on anything, where there is a will there is a way. The bottom line will always rest on what did you teach your kids/nieces/nephew/cousins/etc, how did you teach them to handle the world? Did you turn a blind eye and allow the locks to play keeper? Or did you take an active role in those kid's lives to teach them how to handle those situations with or without locks?

Personally I dont have any locks on anything, but I have instilled in my kid the ability to think for herself, to know right from wrong, and why she should avoid "hazardous" situations, not just because its against the law, but because ultimately some of those experiences will harm her in one way or another with life long consequences. Sure sticking a lock on something is far easier than taking the time to explain, to talk, to reexplain, its exhausting, but in the end, they have the right tools they need to get through life, not just an insatiable urge to pick locks.

haha, well we think along the same lines, it seems and yea, my brother will be waiting in a back alley of SL with his overcoat and a bag of candy for those kiddies.

I was thinking the exact same thing. For heaven's sake. Can we not have a few pieces saying "SL is really educational"? If anything would put children off ever coming here it would be that.

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.

You're kidding, right?

If your child has unsupervised access to the internet, SL wouldn't be my first worry. There's some 'adult' stuff out there that is truly scarring to see, at any age.

Manufacturers in the U.S. have been pruducing an unsafe product called an "automobile". All it takes is a simple key to operate, and it does not verify that the operator is old enough or holds a valid operator's permit. These "automobiles" or "autos" as they are known can be used to travel to such places as adult novelty stores and establishments that serve alchoholic beverages. In the hands of inexperienced or impaired operators, they can cause great bodily harm or death!

I call on all manufaturers of these so-called "autos" to take steps to prevent our nations' youth from being led down this path of depravity and death!

Well, one untruth is where Mr. Kirk states that SL exploits women. I'm assuming he means the rape "area" he went to. He says you can choose to be raped or BE the rapist. That's the word, "choose". How does that teach exploiting women if you CHOOSE to be there? I'm a woman, SL doesnt exploit me, and I choose NOT to go there. Did any of that make sense? lol

I think people are outraged when the whole of SL is targeted. Imagine a report on the Internet as a whole, and how some aspects of it aren't 'kid friendly', without mentioning anything positive about it.

And Hustler Magazine does the same thing.

I think people are outraged because it may force SL to do something about age/ID verification. Everyone states it's necessary, but everyone says in the same breath that they won't participate until it's absolutely guaranteed to be 100% foolproof. We all know that will never happen so lets just forget it and leave it as is......hypocritical in the first degree.

If LL had even one honest obstacle in place to reduce the chances of a kid accessing the adult grid, I'd be on your side..........they don't, so I guess I'm against most here.

And I just did a Google search..........type in "vitual games online". See what site pops up first.

yea but i dont "play" with hustler magazine..i "play" SL...lol..

And by your definition Hustler Magazine doesn't exploit women. Whether you play it or not.

Once again the congressman neglects to stress two important points: these kids he's trying to protect need to lie about their age to get in and then actively seek out this stuff.

Considering that (I assume) places like libraries and schools don't allow people to install their own software on their machines, I wonder if a JIRA to ask LL to make a PG-regions/parcels-only viewer would be appropritate.

edit: and I like how both the Fox reporter and the Congressman refer to SL as 'new'.

No it's being economic with the truth. It's also extremely silly considering the whole point is to warn parents but more than that, by not mentioning there are teen and adult grids it gives the impression that all areas of second life contain this content, and that's extremely unfair to Linden Lab.

And been in Beta for the longest time.

exploit Definition

ex·ploit (eks′plo̵it′; also, and for v.usually, ek splo̵it′, ik-)

noun

an act remarkable for brilliance or daring; bold deed

Etymology: ME & OFr esploit, an exploit, action < L explicitum, neut. pp. of explicare: see explicate

transitive verb

1. to make use of; turn to account; utilize productively
2. to make unethical use of for one's own advantage or profit; specif., to make profit from the labor of (others) without giving a just return
3. Advertising to stir up interest in; promote to exploit a product

IMO, no, Hustler doesnt exploit women, being they CHOSE to pose nude. No one is making unethical use of these women, they did it to themselves. Same with the "exploitation" in SL.

WELL SAID! my whole point exactly..thanks for saying it for me, cuz I really dont have a way with words..lol..it's totally unfair, and I wish I could rebut el that video.

My parents watch Fox news religiously. That explains why I got the "I saw that game you play on the news, its bad" phone call lecture from my mom the other day.