SL closing down??

This must be a corner of Barnes & Noble that I missed...

WOW!!!


I haven't been on a trip this strange since 3 hits of Acid in the early 80's!!!

One "unique" thread. lol

...enjoy the trip, peeps!!!

All right, all right. Don't get so wadded up over it. I'm not defending it, I'm just saying it's illegal. If you really want me to, I'll go look up the actual citation, but I'm sort of busy this afternoon doing actual work (I still can't believe my employer makes me do that - it's an outrage). It might take a few hours before I can get to it. At any rate, it's not as unconstitutional as you might think. There is all sorts of speech that is not permitted under the guarantee of free speech. That guarantee was put in place to protect the citizens' rights to criticize the government, not their right to promote child porn, yell fire in a crowded theater, conspire to commit crimes, etc. If the harm to society outweighs the right t free speech, it can be outlawed in certain circumstances. I honestly don't know how the Court would rule on this. They certainly lean towards allowing free speech, but this is pretty heinous and we have some pretty conservative justices. Thomas and Scalia aren't going anywere any time soon, for example, and I would bet that they would favor this law. You might get Kennedy to side with the conservatives. The CJ is still an unknown, but is conservative enough to go with the law. I'm not making a judgment here, but you know as well as I do that politics play a role at the Supreme Court level. They shouldn't, but those justices didn't get their jobs by being good at what they do, they got them by playing politics.

Did you just say...

Hahaha! Yes, this thread certainly IS some spectacle.

You are a strange, strange person. Please go away.

/puts a plaque entitled "Better Life" over the Exit sign

Would all of those who feel Second Life is in danger of closing, feel Second Life is a threat to their way of life, feel Second Life needs to be changed/controlled/sued/restricted/lobotomized/hobbled/scrubbed or feel in any way that Second Life is a vile pit of debauchery and is the inevitible harbinger of the doom of children/animals/gardening/even wax jobs on expensive automobiles...

Please pass through these doors to a Better Life...and let the rest of us enjoy Second Life as it is.

You ploy might have worked if you had put the plaque above the glory hole...

/me chokes on her granola bar.

LOL! This thread makes me laugh.

So now we have plague??

ZOMG! Someone call a dentist!!!

Erm, wouldn't that be ALL of Europe?

It's times like this that I'm glad I work in a home office...snorting and laughing like I just did would certainly make people look.

No, most of europe can't access mature content. I guess it's all of europe who's living outside of USA. (Which seems rather obvious.)

To my knowledge most of europe has no issue accessing mature content for that matter either. (If they, to uselessly restate the obvious, live outside of the usa.)

lol, I'm not aware of any part of Europe which exists inside the US. Now, if the OP had said 'Europeans'...

Ya know, when I think of this, the one thing that strikes me about the thread is some person came in here, talking about how much they wish Europe allowed "glory holes," and also said that they wished Second Life was more restrictive on the sexual stuff they did't like.

There's a word for that, isn't there?

Mari

I know for aq fact that there are children living in England. And it is reliably reported that there is at least one pedophile in England doing nasty things to children. Therefore, it must be only a matter of time before England is shut down. Now there is a story for this Channel 5!

The OP, to follow his own logic, needs to prepare to liquidate his goods in UK and emigrate. If, as I am advised, the same conditions exist in every country on Earth, the OP must also prepare to leave this world altogether. When you do, OP, can I have your RL stuff?

I'm pretty sure they speak some crazy European language in Louisiana. Nobody can understand a word they say. So, technically, Louisiana is part of Europe. New Mexico, ironically, is not part of Old mexico, and Baja California is not related to California. Minnesota is in Canada, I think. Newfoundland is part of Greenland, which is more white and icy than it is green, but not as white and icy as Iceland, which was named after George Washington Carver Ice, who invented the frozen peanut sundae and sold the patent to Dairy Queen.

Nevertheless, Louisana=Europe. Therefore, there are no Cajun Glory Holes. They police this policy by putting holes in bookstores and stationing hungry alligators on the other side. You have to drive across the border to Texas if you want that sort of entertainment. Texas is on loan to Mexico for the time being because it got tired of having to admit that it's the second largest state, a fact that Alaskans (a subsidiary of Russia) find hilarious.

ROFLMFAO!!!


...and I thought this was going to be just another boring Monday!!!

*chokes on her wine, waiting for the world to shut down*

Uhm...hyp...hype...hypa...hypo - that's it!! Hippos!!
Oh, now I feel so violated by those hippo's that take over my Friend's list in-world sometimes...

Get your hooves off me, you damned dirty hippo!

No you.





Clearly there is "no plan" for alot of things. LL made SL in their own image, totally unpoliced, anarchic, etc. Big mistake.

It's a huge myth and excuse, that "there is no way to police the grid effectively"
of course there are ways that could be developed to police it and even ways that would not be intrusive to "normal," sex maniacs in SL.



Certainly not in SL as it is. But the technology has been and continues being developed that can pick out target activities in a digital environment.




Of course not but you as a company, can at the very least know who they really are. LL has even failed in that area and in fact promoted freebie accounts requiring basically nothing that was verified and age verification as it is, is also a joke.





Not true. They own it. They own every pixel and bit of it. BUT all that can be debated, that is not the point. My point is LL couldn't resist government and mass lawsuits while all of that was debated.





The internet is not owned by a single company. SL is no different then any MMO in that regard. They own it, it's their platform, according to their TOS they have the right to take your land and avatar and flush it, at any moment, for any reason they choose---but you can sue them and probably win if money is involved.

They still keep their ownership rights just like any MMO, which as I said, I bet they don't want much longer, if too much heat happens. They have to get serious about writing technology into SL that can catrch and stop bots, age-play and anything else that is detrimental to SL.





As I said, regardless how it's debated, just banning it, to CYA, is not enough. if SL is found to be a kiddie porn stronghold then they are toast especially if they are sitting there saying..."we can't do anything." If LL is smart enough to create a 3D virtual reality, then they should be smart enough to build into it the necessary safeguards. if that means constant scannng of chats looking for various red flags then so be it.

If it means hiring a large 24/7 kiddie porn task force, then so be it.


SL is neither the internet or just a neutral service provider, no matter how they might like to spin it.

You mentioned Warcraft. Warcraft avatars cannot get naked except with a mod where you can see yourself only---naked---and that is against the TOS, because it is against the TOS to alter a character and people are caught with anything that alters the characters, by a program that constantly scans the clients for devices, for bots etc. they target and there is no way to have sex scripts except chat macros, and the closest thing they have to small avatars are Gnomes, which of course are the butt of many jokes.

Of course there is some sexual RP in Warcraft chats and joking of course, and private chat, but if a Pedophile is out scoping the players he is going to be busted very quickly. People are reported constantly if something crosses the line and Blizzard acts nearly instantly. With LL, reports are often a joke.

With SL they have to approach the problem differently because in SL people can change their avatars and there are sex scripts and sex items...but since LL knew this and no doubt could foresee problems with illegal activity, then they should have come up with technical solutions to catch people by now and certainly needs to build them into their MMO.

Instead they want to be viewed as though they are the internet. They aren't, they own it. They are responsible for it.

you, my young friend, are my hero!

I think you are referring to The PROTECT ACT of 2003 PROTECT Act of 2003 18 U.S.C. § 1466A. A similar law, The Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 was overturned by the supreme court as unconstitutional. The PROTECT act was also ruled unconstitutional by the 11 circuit court and has been presented to the supreme court for review.

I'm not even going to attempt to comment on the other directions this thread is taking.

Not yet anyway, give us time

/me points up. Helllooooo!? Louisana.