Upcoming Changes for Adult Content: Answers to Questions

The misuse of AO is due to their lack of living inworld like residents. Their policy decision is due to their lack of living inworld like residents.

Already some poorly placed land parcels are being stocked with adult items and verbage in an attempt to qualify as adult...search 'Ursula' for examples.

FACT...Ursula land will be at a premium expecially if LL underestimated the number of users being *forced* to move...how will they distinguish between the genuine cases and the potential land speculators attempting a move under the radar?

LL may not agree to a user moving to Ursula??? This is like saying a business cannot expand its range...what it IS SAYING is 'you wont get a free move, you will have to live in fear and be excluded from search by removing key words until you decide there is no alternative but pay huge bucks to move yourself'

What if eventually a non adult business decides adult is the way to go, or that their products have to be adult rated/described?..will there still be room left to move into? What if the business cannot then afford the land price required having missed the free swop?

What if LL doesn't allow a free swop but at a later date decides (or as an AR result) you need to go adult, can you still swop?

So far the Blondin response 'customers are expected to try out poses' flies in the face of the definitions brown bag meeting where it was clearly stated that sex acts and balls were adult when in public plus presenting a storeowner nightmare to police...

For those still wondering why LL are bothering...you only have to read the glowing tone of the blog on some Mexican University using SL to understand the safe, predictable direction LL want 'your world, your imagination' to go. Core users are now a risky inconvenience to be fragmented and sidelined.

What is being overlooked is the dollars received by the established gamers v 'educators and commerce'. In a global recession is SL presence really top priority for these operations bearing in mind only top range computers can even RUN the game? LL need to stop sucking up to this wish list and return to its roots of providing a fun virtual reality for humans over 18 years old...(as adult seems to equal porn now)

Let's just use FU. There's no confusion as to what that means.

Nope. Still don't get it! Perhaps I'm too stupid for Animation OverriderLand.

No they haven't. One single Linden has in this (unofficial) forum said, "Ah, but we don't really mean to enforce it that way".

That's something else that I haven't let into my thoughtspace- The fact that LL is listening to, and acting on the wants of a group of people, *however* large, who actually said:

"My SL experience would be so much better if only *those people* would stay where I can't see them. Get rid of them!"

You know what? I'm not sure I'd even give the *time* to someone who said that to me.
I'd very much respect someone who said "Hey, could you put your plums away? there's *kids* here! and I realize that there will be some people who simply will not participate in a *polite* society.

But to *cater* to the kind of person who thinks that they can improve *any* aspect of *their* life by getting rid of people who are doing nothing wrong?

I'm not sure I'd like to do business with anyone like that in any case.
And if the opinions driving the changes come from *within* the company itself? Even worse.

LL, You *are* planning on rounding people up and transporting them to please a minority. Maybe you might want to step back from that decision and think about it for a while- look around and see what company you'd be in *then*.

-V-

Do you think maybe there is a chance whoever invented the Animation Override could get LL with one of those YMCA Takedown thingies?

I have come to the conclusion that this plan of Linden Labs is ethically untenable. The dilemma before me now is this:

Do I want to continue to contribute financially to a company that may (not totally sure on this either actually) be acting legally, but certainly not honestly?

I put it to the community. Do you want to do business with a company that is not acting with honor or consistency with regard to their stated goals for working with this community?

Thanks, that's the funniest thing I've heard all day.

No, but what does that leave? I can't live on Ben & Jerry's alone!

Where did Marigold say she wanted it removed?

I've gone green dot hunting now and then and landed in the middle of weird stuff as well. You'd think they'd think to set a landing point outside the fetish zone, oh well...

That was the STD code for Vaucluse back in the '70s, when it was only two digits and before they quit putting letters on phone dials.

DMCA dear, it's a DMCA!

It's fun to file a D-M-C-A
It's fun to file a D-M-C-A

I have no idea what that means.

Young man, there’s no need to feel down.
I said young man, this law is good.
I said young man, it helps the MPAA
There’s no need to hack at all now

Young man, do away with mp3
I said young man, don’t decode that DVD
If you do now, I’m sure you will find
The F-B-I breaking down your door

You will be busted under the D-M-C-A
You will be busted under the D-M-C-A

They will take everything from you,
Say bye to your boxen and hard disks…

You will be busted under the D-M-C-A
You will be busted under the D-M-C-A [...]

Catchy. It would make a great song.

EDIT: QED

I think you would be hard pressed to find a lawyer who agreed with you- the LL TOS applies only to Second Life- not any other venues. LL can only control the advertising it it's *own* sphere of influence. Seach, etc. The SL TOS didn't even apply to XstreetSl until LL bought it.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'd check with marty on this one

-V-

STD - Subscriber Trunk Dialling - "area code". Telephones used to have these metal disks on them called "dials" that you turned to "dial" a number.

Um...well, MistressAnna has kind of thrown out a red herring here. BDSM is a sexual paraphilia...that is, a fetish, becoming sexually aroused by something that is not normally considered considered a sexual cue. Someone into BDSM can get an awful lot of sexual pleasure out of things that would not be considered "having sex" by the vanilla folks.

But I still find Blondin's response amusing. It's OK to SELL the whips and chains, but not OK to USE them. Hmm. Uh, no...I don't think the Nannies are going to go along with that one. Too unpredictable.

What if one was buying them for "Educational Purposes"?

Behave, next you'll be telling me the numbers had letters on them too!

Marigold, I'm sorry you got startled by rezzing into something you didn't expect. Surely, though, that is one of the most interesting parts of "dot-hopping?" You never know what you are going to find. Dot-hoppers are (or ought to be) open-minded and adventurous explorers of the unknown. If you want predictability, use Search instead.

As for it only applying to "the more specialised stuff" (and thank you, that's a nice way of putting it)...have you read the official definitions? According to LL, skirts that are too short and necklines that are too low are "specialised stuff".

And phones had cords.

Just found this while trawling:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/3350351900/in/photostream/

11th March...

Anyone got a clue? I've not seen a reference to a 'conference' in the forums. Maybe I've missed it.
(check out Daniel's photostream for other LL events, Teen SL stuff etc.) - maybe someone there can clarify anything about it?


*I* Am Unpredictable Adult Content

I haven't the slightest sympathy for Blondin. He is, in his official capacity as a representative of Linden Lab, actively encouraging us to lie and cheat.

Blondin, in case you had forgotten, lying and cheating are sins. Unlike sex, which is performed between consenting adults and harms no one, lying and cheating destroy the sinner's moral fiber and cause harm to others.

You have a very, very warped set of morals, sir. In attempting to stamp out one "sin" that you can't even define, you introduce...nay, encourage...the commission of more and worse sins.

You disgust me.