Should LL police resident blogs? Do they?

Should they? No.

Do they? It seems that they do. They may not so much "police" but at least one Linden is known to have posted ominously to certain people's blogs and outside forums to "make it known that they can see everything that is being said against them, and by whom".

I have worn a Elliott/Selleck for 20 years, the women love it.

There are a couple of different ways such a bargain could work, depending on the individual. Imagine such "policing" and retribution were in effect. Some might sacrifice their freedom for the ability to use SL; one would hope that most would speak freely, at the risk of losing their Second Life.

Of course, principles are more expensive if you have a lot at stake. So it would be much nicer if LL didn't impose such a bargain (and I have no expectation that they would). But ultimately, it wouldn't be LL taking away anybody's freedom of speech. It would be up to the individual which they valued more, liberty or Second Life.

The only times when LL would have any jurisdiction outside of their own sites and services is certain cases of disclosure where a person(s) RL safety or life is at risk, the company/grid are under a clearly damaging attack from outside (flooding a sim with Cosby cubes isn't really in this category, btw) or in a case of libel directed at LL or SL itself.

Within SL or on the forums they can do what they want of course.

Links?

Providing links in forum posts is now against the forum rules.

Sending them in PM's isn't

Links?

Links, can't qoute a Linden's post from a few post's back in the same thread without getting the Linden name taken out, all kinds of silly horse sh*t. Of course then it also depends on who you are. If you are the right person then you can do all of that and more.

So if I create LowenRaymaker.com and post that Phillip Linden drinks the blood of the innocent, then you should get banned?

On 3rd party websites, there's no guarantee that the people are actually who they claim to be. On the official forum, we have to log in with the same username and password as our in-world account (or create an alt just for the forum). In a way, LL is actually protecting your account by not policing those other forums.

Or conversely, to disclose it freely...

Hey I missed this post!!

I am amazed the Poster doesn't see the problems inherent in this Post!!

Snooping around on the internet to find stuff on people is wrong.

Duh.

Besides the fact that looking for problems concerning RL employment , school and legal matters is a bit different from spying on what people do and say about a computer game.

Another one of those tired SL/RL analogies that just don't quite make it.

yeah true.

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On the RL stuff though ....

I think they are going overboard on the whole looking up your entire background when you apply for a job anyhow.

Surely you jest. I don't get enough homophobic horny boys asking to prove my RL self with RL details as it is.

No webcam? Your a dude.
No phone sex? Your a dude.
No voice? Your a dude.
No pictures with SL written on your privates? Your a dude.

Come on now. If everyone gave their RL info the homophobs, the ones in a virtual world about creating a secondlife however you want looking for pixel sex and cybering, would have a much easier time finding their women partner friend. Well then again it could be like adult friend finder where there is 10,000 men to one real women. Heaven forbid they use their imagination or something. Can't have that in a virtual world based on people making it how they would like it to be not necessarily how it is in RL. Is there some irony there?

Ooops, I must be a dude for posting something like this!


On topic, the only thing LL has power over a 3rd party is copyright or trademark violations. Also people posting things that are not true and/or defamatory can be considered libel and is sue worthy by whoever is being talked about. Freedom of speech only goes so far. However that is a personal dispute, not one LL can really be involved in unless it was LL being talked about.

In any case if someone gets in such a situation it should be a WAKE UP CALL that their internet behaviors should be adjusted and they should just move on. That is my opinion of course.

the solution is simple

Wikipedia routinely bans editors for outside Wikipedia behaviour. They have banned people for their blogs, usenet posts, posted private email etc etc.

A recent study found 90% of all Wikipedia edits are done by less than 1% of the member base.

That should give you an indication of how "good" offsite blog policing goes.

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