Theres a joke about a church lady calling the police because her neighbour shows of at his window and disturds her peace.
So the police visits her to see self what is exactly going on, but as much as they try they manage not to look into the neighbours windows to see him flaunt his stuff.
So they as the lady what she is upset against.
"See, if you step on this chair and look though the upper left corner of my living room window you see him running arround without clothing in his bathroom!"
The morale of the story is that there is a line regarding how much you have to hide wich offends others.
So faar people only where upset about things LL wants to do, so why not collect ideas of our own and present them to Linden Labs.
First thing wich upsets me is that Linden Lab so faar treats me like a minor and "protects" me from content wich could be "offending"
Theres quite a lot of things i consider offending and i do self a lot of things others consider offending, the trick is, i do not go to places things happen i consider offending, and i dont bring hings wich the majority could consider offending into places wich do not carter to said activities.
What Linden Labs is doing now though is open the gates for people wich love to stick there nose into other peoples lifes and tell them what they are allowed to do and what not.
So my idea would be:
Linden Labs lists precisly wich activities are ILLEGAL, in other words, all activities wich would have legal consequences for Linden Labs if they allow them on there servers, we can not expect that they go to jail for us.
Linden Labs lists precisly wich activities are considerd "not for the public eye" so people know how to behave where, you will laugh but "common sense" will not work in this regard, SL is a multi national and cultural thing, there are social norms even between the american and european continent wich clash badly.
Linden Labs redoes the "mature checkbox" into that if you switch it off you can not enter plots marked this way and maybe do not see anything wich happens there, its green land, no prims, no other avatars, nothing.
so if you do, offer or build somehting on the "legal but not for the public" you check the mature box and thats it.
I enjoy Second Life not for a certain content or activity, i enjoy most the freedom i have to socialise as i want. If Linden Labs decides that it has to tell me what is good for me and what not and turns the whole into a dammed disney world plastic world i see no point visiting it.
All that has nothing to do with violence, nudity or kinky sex and all to do with my freedom to choose my poison and say what i want in the limits of social acceptable behaviour.
I consider running arround in the nude in PG sims offensive and i consider it offensive to have other people morales crammed down my throat.
We have already PG and MATURE sims. If that is not enough add more labels so people can set the flaggs approbiate to the content and noone can claim to stumble into something "offending".
Make clear what activities are "not right" at wich place and we have a deal.
Treat the residents of SL like grown up people and allow them to make a choice, doent enforce what someone else considers right onto them as long it means no legal trouble for you Linden Labs.
SL has grown behind a cooperate platform to sell goods and do videoconferencing for cheap, or purely educational activities.
It has grown into a community wich is alive, has its own culture and a very whide palette of social norms.
This is what it makes it alive and interesting, you can learn about other cultures and see how a own culture developes, doing the same in RL is for most people very impossible because it would mean to life several month in foreign cultures and countries to get that close to the people there, SL is like a catalyst in this regard, there is no other way to connect that fast and closly to people with other cultures.
If you start to "clean it up" you will not only remove "offending content" in regard of sexuality or roleplay but yuou will remove "offending content" in cultural and personal means too.
Instead, create the tools for the people to flagg there plots and encourage that neighbours talk with each other and find solutions how to set up things they can get along.
Stomping down on everything wich could be "broadly offending" will very soon end with the question if gays should be allowed to "flaunt there sick orientation in public" and woman to show there face in public, because booth are if you go to the approbiate countries "Broadly offending" to the majority of the worlds population.
Even the American outlook on decency wich is for european eayes already pretty "backwards" is worldwide, for the majority of the cultures and peoples worldwide broadly offensive.
Do you want a SL wich carters to the minial consens and therefore needs a religous and morale taskforce monitoring IMs and chat or do you want a land where people learn to mind there own stuff and get along without enforcing there cutlural and religious rules on others?
I am all for banning what brings LindenLabs legal trouble, but saying "look its ok to run arround and shoot with guns randomly at others in war sims but having a sim where people lead others on a leash is very bad and we simply can not allow it because it is broadly offensive doesent works for me.
Because if two people like the leash thing and do it in there sims i really dont mind and consider it way more healthy than taking a gun and shooting other players for fun.
As long Linden Labs runs war sims and allows the building of guns and there use between consenting adults they have absolutly no morale high ground to declare any other form ov violence illegal. NONE.
Simulating the killing with guns, knives or bombs resulting in simulating the maiming, torturing and killing of humans, as long this is not "Broadly offensive" too i consider Linden Labs idea of what is "Broadly Offensive" simply very very sick and the people responsible should search for professional help.