From: Jessica Elytis
Sorry to chop your post, Chip, but I wanted to point this part out.
Shouldn't the people law enforcement and goverment bodies be going after be the PARENTS of the minors? After all, PARENTS are supposed to supervise their children and the PARENTS are the ones supplying the PC through which the children are accessing SL afterall.
I detest how inept and lazy parents shunt off the responibility for raising their kids on the rest of society. It's pathetic actually.
Yeah, I know, LL doing this to save their butts in court. I agree with that. I'm just saying that it's the court's, and society's, fault that LL has to do such idiotic things in the first place.
~Jessy
Just as a complete aside - I've noticed during my entire time on SL remarks expressing anger that parents don't supervise their children and therefore we have to.
I really don't think parents deserve all this anger. The percentage of parents who are lazy and inept is quite low. The vast majority do not shunt the responsibility for raising their children onto society.
Yet, reading these forums over the past couple of years, one would think rotten parents is the reason for all the rules in the world regarding keeping kids out of things.
Most parents duly make efforts to protect their children from what they think they should not encounter. Should they encounter it anyhow, rare is the parent who will haul off and sue the provider of the offensive content.
I don't agree with the lengths to which LL is going to protect minors in SL. I also don't agree with the reason why they are doing it this way:
Which is so that anybody and everybody can access SL with no cost and no identity (beyond a verifiable screen name, which they only put in months after opening the gates, and only after I and others had persistently pointed out it was the least they could do).
They want this, and they see that they can make us take responsibility, rather than them. They even see this as desirable, because they like to view themselves as "the 3-D web," and as such, they think ALL responsibilities should be ours, just as we would have responsibility for our own web page.
That is why we have this mess now. It has nothing to do with "lazy and inept parents."
coco