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In a move we can only assume is being made somewhat begrudgingly, Linden Lab, the company that makes the persistent online universe 'Second Life,' has announced that it's going to start cracking down on the game's seedy underbelly.
Various measures are being implemented to take the edge off: All "adult" services and sales will take place inside a predetermined section of the 'Second Life' universe and the in-game search engine will apparently filter out "adult" advertisements (wonder if this will work as well as our e-mail filters?). Finally, all users will have to pass through an age verification process in order to access the adult content.
The company has tried similar measures in the past with little success, so only time will tell how well these new rules can be enforced. Either way, don't expect 'Second Life' to stop being what it always has been: the place to let your freak-flag fly. [From: Business Insider]
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Subscribe to commentsFlinkMar 14th 2009 2:29AM
And so ends the saga of second life.
It is so unfortunate that the very things that a person wants from a fantasy world are rapidly becoming extinct.
In the "real world," gambling, unprotected sex with as many strangers as you can manage, enjoying hours in a strip clubs and casinos, spending money like a drunken sailor, all the things that really aren't appropriate to practice in real life. People need and want a way to safely experience their fantasies.
So? What's the alternative? Why, it's Second Life, of course. Second Life's appeal was the very things that are now rapidly becoming illegal there due to unreasoning influence of "real life" prudes and killjoys.
Whose business is it if a happy married man wants to cavort as a hot blonde prostitute, or that slinky little cat person? Sex with an anthromorphic male tiger? Sure. Want virutal sex with pixels that look underage? Well, why not. It's only pixels. Would you rather a person tries it for real or whacks off to pixels? Whips and chains more your thing, but you don't want to deal with the neighbor's questioning stares after a weekend of whipping those five strangers you picked up in a dance club? Second life, my friend.
That was the draw. Second Life was the place to play out all those crazy, extreme fantasies. A place where you could join a band of space mercenaries or live a quiet life with a spouse in land where all your neighbors are animal people? Want red hair? Change it. Want to be taller? Go ahead and make yourself tall. Anything you want.
So now the casinos are gone. And with them many excellent dance clubs, strip clubs, and bordellos. Places where you could go and enjoy the vicarious life of a creation of your mind.
Second Life cracks down on and bans the things that people want to experience in a safe fantasy world where they needn't take any responsibility for things that would earn them scorn and prison time in the real world. Heaven forbid someone should want to act out a fantasy someplace where there are no repercussions, no injuries, no deaths, no damage.
To all of you who enjoyed your time there with me ant the rest being a bunch of crazy thrill seekers, I salute you.
To those who would make thought and fantasy illegal at the pixel level? I hope your insides rot and drip down your leg.
techspert522May 13th 2009 3:38PM
flink, you're a fool. Did you even bother to read the article. Nowhere in there does it say SL is not going to allow any adult content, they are just going to work toward making it accessible only to *adults.* Or are you upset of the prospect of being unable to behave as a digital pedophile?
TylerMar 14th 2009 2:08PM
Flink,
Amen. Nothing more to add.