Second Life will be banned in Australia

Not a conspiracy theory at all. My original post in this thread kinda got lost in all the Obama bashing (I'm kinda sick of thread hijacking, but oh well - it's on page 2 if anyone is interested). LL was aware of the possibility of this law, another one that is coming up for vote this fall in the U.S., the various anti-porn and violence laws being passed in the UK and the general trend toward censorship across the globe.

I have, and will continue to commend LL in their efforts to self-regulate. While the plan may not be perfect and while I may not agree with all of their decisions here, LL is at least being proactive enough to have viable options and means of compliance in place - before the laws actually hit the books.

As near as I can tell, once everyone with adult content is in Zindra or on a private adult island, SL will easily fall under the MA15+ game rating in Australia and Aussie users will simply be unable to log into the Adult areas (should this thing pass in the first place).

Still - if you are in Australia - the post earlier in this thread with a call to contact your officials (it has a few names for you too) is definitely a good plan. Good luck, but either way, I suspect I will at least be able to continue meeting up with my FIO's (Friends in Oz) for many years to come - even if we have to hop to another sim to shake hands.

At this point, he's the janitor, Bush is the kid who flushed cherry bombs down all the toilets. We'll see how history judges them.

Whilst may of us are still digging deep into this announcement and sifting through what is what, its time to do what aussies are famous for.... STANDING UP FOR EACH OTHER......LOOKING OUT FOR EACH OTHER and of course caring about each other. This will effect many different people in may different ways, socially first and foremost, as many varied persons with different RL lives benefit greatly from this medium. People with many disabilities and social issues that can not do the things they are able to in SL will be shattered if this revelation proves to be true. And that is an immense loss. And of course persons with time , and RL money invested in SL that will be all for nothing. Wether you have a small little store and have fun selling a couple of items, or wether you have a well known SL Business providing for you and your families in RL is irrelevant to me (and i fit into one of those above mentioned groups) EVERYONE will be worse off if this course of actionis put into place. EVERYONE. so my theory is step back , have a good hard look at what this is, and fight like hell for ALL aussies that use SL and all the Aussies that may never get the chance. Feel free to contact me Hiiigh Jinx in world to meet up and chat and join the SAVE SL AUSTRALIA movement. CHeers!!

crazy conspiracy theory occurred to me this morning - that Linden Lab knew about this plan a while ago, and Zindra is an attempt to compromise with the Aussie government. Maybe a way of letting Aus users stay but preventing them access to the Adult continent.

The Federal Government is planning to force all Australian servers to filter internet traffic and block any material the Government deems ‘inappropriate’. Under the plan, the Government can add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist.

Testing has already begun on systems that will slow our internet by up to 87%, make it more expensive, miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and accidentally block up to 1 in 12 legitimate sites. Our children deserve better protection - and that won't be achieved by wasting millions on this deeply flawed system.

I heard about this proposed ban while I was in-world this morning.

As a non-Australian, I've always thought of Australia as about the most liberal country in the world.

So it's quite shocking that to hear that the Aus government is planning to ban Second Life.

The encouraging thing is that the proposal is a blanket ban on adult online games, because that would cause a much bigger protest than just a ban on SL.

I'm British, and to me, if this can happen in Australia, of all places, then it could happen anywhere.

The Aussies are a bunch of hypocritical perverts ...

This actually made me literally laugh out loud! Mainly because I can see G. W. Bush actually literally DOING that!

WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - Oversensitive overemotional hysterical reaction to amusing post.

Pep (Come and have a dance with me Czari and leave these poor creatures to scream into the void.)

As a non-Australian, I've always thought of Australia as about the most liberal country in the world.

Not really, he's stuck with cleaning up messes that should have either been finished five years ago, or we shouldn't be facing at all. At this point, he's the janitor, Bush is the kid who flushed cherry bombs down all the toilets. We'll see how history judges them.

But Obama/Pelosi/Clinton/Biden scare the stuffing out of me. They don't understand the first thing about economics, or science, or medicine, or diplomacy. Most of all, they have no conception that actions have consequences. All they understand is power.

He's been the Janitor for the past several years, along with the rest of his party who controlled Congress. Niether side can point fingers at the other on this. They are all responsible, going back to Slick Willie, who stuffed used tampons down the toilet before GW pulled the handle. They are all to blame, every single one of them.

But thats par for the course for the Republican Party for the past 25 years.

Obama has been in the Whitehouse for 6 months, give him some time people.

Handy

(sorry for the rant I'm just sick to death of the rights hypocrisy)

But Obama/Pelosi/Clinton/Biden scare the stuffing out of me. They don't understand the first thing about economics, or science, or medicine, or diplomacy. Most of all, they have no conception that actions have consequences. All they understand is power.

It's all been going to hell since Andrew Jackson.

I haven't been there since 1986, but my impression then was a liberal country with a lot of conservative citizens.

That's true in a way, we're more a religion free kind of place, conservative comes from a different POV here.

i lived many years in america, there are way more churches. churches for 5,000-10,000 people even! a televangelist can sell out something bigger than the mcg over there.
not a lot of people seem christian in the ned flanders kind of way, but man they sure do pack out churches there.
in melb in a day i see a mosque, a christian korean church, many catholic schools, and maybe a cathedral in the city (sometimes i work at that cathedral too. its gorgeous). nothing like the carpet of churches in the states.