Virtual Worlds and Morality

The Child AV witch hunt would probably be a less if people were more comfortable in knowing minors couldn't access the adult grid more easily than the teen grid.

I'm fine with it. THEY are the one who entered SL under false pretenses. THEY are the ones trying to extort. Let's go to court, make sure Mom and Dad come along.Besides, at least here, such a case would never get to court.You would not be very liable if you ceased once the person admitted to being underage, and even then, an actual RL meeting would have to take place in most cases.

I'll defer to Mari on this, there are too many cases of people assuming the worst when they see a child avi, and over eacting, but is it a "Witchhunt"? Seems a bit hyperbolic to me.

I entirely fail to see how the witch hunt against child avatars are protecting them. I see exactly that, a witch hunt against somebody who is not behaving like the supposed mainstream.

Then LL needs to come up with a way to verify you within the bounds of your laws, or lose you as customers. But in any event, it is their service, their responsibilty, which they constantly abrogate to the users. They want the rewards, but don't want the risks.

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Yes sorry its a stong phrase "witch hunt", really I don't see one happening at all,, I caught it from a previous poster, damn infectious phrases spinning out of control
"E-acting" nice new term you came up with

I'll just pick up the gambling point Lindal, no doubt others have. As you can imagine this was a point I was especially interested in. I can state quite categorically that gambling is NOT going to be tolerated in Openlife.

Ticking a box doesnt bother me. Providing passport, driver license, health card, Socieal Security does.
Anyway, considering the kinda stuff that is accessible to teengers in terms of games, internet, TV and movies, SL is pretty tame.
I dont agree with age verifying. I dont agree to providing access to teenagers - how are we gonna police them? Howdo we age verify a teenager t make sure he/she isnt 14 or 9? Ban teens from sl.
I am ambivalent on adults as children in sl. I dont mix with them - my friends are older than me actually (strangely, I mix well with the over 50 crowd who, sadly, think they are old fogies whereas they are ex-hippies and punks and remember when the "classics" I love were just released). Rock on you wild and crazy flower-children! I wanna be liek you!

Oops.

Yeah, I just quoted your use of witch hunt, because it was infront of me and was too lazy to find the original one. Sorry Mate.

Lol! Brenda please stay in one thread, I keep zipping around from thread to thread and you are making me dizzy! Lol (just jokes)

Agreed. And it is no less "real" as SL is.




I don't blame you, I wouldn't give it out either. LL and LL alone can have A Name. Address Credit Card Number in order to access SL. I'm not willfully giving any more to them or to any 3rd Party, especially one with as spotty a reputation as the one they have parterned with.

Yeah, but unfortunately in some countries your name and a story could be all over the papers before it was settled. And not everyone in the Justice system sees SL as we do.

Well, sorry once again, but I can't worry about what happens in other countries. The only way to avaoid being hit by a bus is to not go out into the street. If the phony cartoon sex in Sl is a risk for you, perhaps you should not do it at all. *A collective you, I mean*

BTW Teggo, What the hell is "Anatchy"

truthfully, I think teh justice system have bigger fish to fry.

I would prefer to just provide a credit card myself whuch to me is no differnet than using my online banking to buy stuff from E-bay. Cash is a pain, only use it to buy a can of drink or lunch from the lunchwagon nowdays.
Kid watching porn without adults consent is a vastly differnet scenario than hiring a young "lady of the night" then finding out she was 6 months too young in a police raid.
How do you ban teens from SL without verification?

Anatchy is an Itch you ALWAYS scratch. Or its half a latch key kid.

Maybe but the media don't seem to mind making big fish stories about sardines.

Heh, I'm not so bullish on OpenSim being anything more than "more of the same". It's just an SL clone.

No, I think we haven't yet seen the next wave of virtual worlds yet, and won't until this generation of computers and most especially the newest graphics cards penetrate the market further. I see a lot of graphics tech floating around now that SL just doesnt even begin to tap into, tech that can both deliver more quality and better compression, and no indication that SL can ever leverage it. It would take a whole new SL, rewritten from the ground up.

It's the result of my increasing typing speed conflicting with my attemptes to read the screen not the keyboard as I type.
Or I just have some mental ilness that keeps making my type wrong or extra letters, many times I seem to hit the letter sin the wrong order like hitting the space bar befor ethe s as before anf now again maybe my left hand is not syncronusing with my right properly at apeed. I need a braile blaxk letterless keyboarf.

Agreed




This is where I have the disconnect about all this and SL in general I guess. You aren't hiring anyone to do anything. It's all a computer generated animation. Even if the person is underage, You are not having sex with anybody. I Your mind may interpret it as being real, but it isn't real. I know some countries say it's the same, but I disagree totally. It is censorsing and persecuting someone for their thoughts, dangerous ground to tread on in a place populated by creative people.

Well, first, look at my previous comment about what I mean by drawing the distinction between "Compuserve" and "The Internet". I'm not all that bullish on OpenSim myself, I'm just saying that it's "more like the Inernet" than SL.

That aside... 70% of the webservers out there are Apache on Linux. They're all just "more of the same" distant descendants of the old NCSA server from the early '90s.

There's already much "better" tech out there for virtual worlds, but so far I only know of three products that are even anywhere near the state of being "The Internet of virtual worlds", and SL is by far the leader. The rest of the products out there are not even trying to be "The Compuserve" of virtual worlds... they're trying to be "The NBC" of virtual worlds, with content piped through them and them in total control.

Because policy is what matters, more than technology, and SL is the closest to having the kind of policy that will work... for the "Compuserve" slot. OpenSim is trying to be the Apache of virtual worlds. They might make it.

Are you stalking me?

SHE'S A WITCH!

You said _witch_...right?