Second Life! Fox News! Sex! Stalking! Terrorism!
- May 23rd, 2007
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British and Belgian police are closing in on a terrorist organization called Second Life where innocent women — and, potentially, men — could be stalked by people who are interested in sexually assaulting them and your teenagers. Murdoch’s hard hitting paper, the Times of London, has the full story.
Police in Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands are considering whether users of “Second Life” may be committing a crime if their character — known as an avatar — sexually assaults or stalks another.
The big problem, here, obviously, is how you tell who is stalking you. After all, maybe an avatar from WoW, a Blood Elf perhaps, could end up over in Second Life and maybe grief the heck out of a fancy geisha girl who is also a 34-year-old male accountant for Midwest Insurance in Canton, Ohio who still lives with his aged mum. Anyone could be stalking anybody! Seriously, people. Just log out.
European Police Probe Sex-Abuse Allegations in ‘Second Life’ [FoxNews]
Karen Palen (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Philip Rosedale talks a good line about freedom of expression, but when it comes to “unpleasant” ideas like small avatars he folds.
The word for that is hypocrisy!
For example, exactly WHAT *IS* the “simulated age” of an avatar?
When this whole fuss started I discussed this with a 50 year old woman who is 4ft tall in real life.
She claimed that the real discrimination was not age but height! If you are 4ft tall you *MUST* be a child - no debate allowed!
I have had the privilege of knowing this woman for over 20 years now and have had the opportunity to witness this discrimination first hand.
At her suggestion (insistence?) I adopted her “persona” as my Second life Persona - Karen Palen.
I can now personally bear witness to the pain she faces every day!
Dumb things like having her 25 year old daughter told to “make your child behave”! Serious things like not being believed when she reports an attempted rape.
The fact is that “freedom of thought” means nothing unless the most extreme and upsetting thoughts are protected!