No, you have to take ownership of a situation like this and realize that Second Life is not just some neutral platform, but an enabler. It makes unstable people think they can form a stable romantic relationship and deceives others into thinking they are stable. It is directly at fault. It's important to understand that, and not shirk from it. It's important to learn the lesson from it, that people who are unstable even before SL have an opportunity to amplify, accelerate, and metastasize that instability in ways that could powerfully hurt you if you meet them in real life. It's a lesso on online safety, and a lesson in "buyer beware" for SL romance.

To try to blame the messenger for delivering that message, and blame the mirror for your crooked face is immature.

Pavig Lok is spouting socialist nonsense about news corporations, when all they did here was report the news, and report it because it had a really bizarre element -- this women could become crazily in love and obsessed *because of* Second Life. Face up to that. She could never have met someone in another state and formed that much of an intense and deceived relationship if she had met in real life, or even online in a chat room, where eventually people ask for photos, phone convos, etc. In SL, they tend not to ask for them and not seek rationality and live in a fantasy realm.

No media report said she was a postal worker, that is what SL blogs and forums said because of the phrase "going postal."

Even if SL had not been involved, the story of a federal crime, an interstate kidnapping attempt by someone this violent and crazy, is news. Sorry, but you're all off here.