hypatiaa

Germany has asked that child content not be displayable for children.

There's a way, its called letting sims and sim owners prevent it from happening, and putting it into the hands of the sim owners to decide it. Just like on the real internet. I proposed a rating system, which is exactly how the games industry does it - let the customer decide, but everyone is so focused on their short-term interests, and are unable to take the long view. Second Life will be finished eventually if they don't sort out a way to deal with the international problem. Only Linden Lab has the power to do this - there are too few of their customers now who can see the issues of the long term and surrounding ecology of law on the internet. I don't see how making Second Life an American service will make the company succeed, but that is exactly what most others are proposing.

I'm done. I better go reduce my land holdings before the gov prevents me from coming into SL to sell them first.

I'm wondering why my comment that was posted long before most of these was moved to the end of the comments list. Bizarre.

Well Tateru, I think you're wrong. If they were going after actresses, they could have picked any number of names.

I bet Ursula Andress wouldn't much like being considered associated with extreme violence and pornography. In fact, she's not. And maybe I should tell her your theory. So that's a load of nonsense. You might as well it call it Marilyn, or how about Jayne, because that's what's going to happen to it when the regulators show up. Suicide and a car accident.

ah, Tateru, you don't remember the German child porn scandal with Second Life, no?

goodness, people's memories are short.

Well, we know that the German population of Second Life is huge - and LL will sooner cut the throat of the adult biz than let the German government try to block the use of Second Life. Please familiarise yourself with what Germany is doing.

It will not matter, if Second Life servers are blocked they are blocked, it has nothing to do with the web.

I hadn't really thought about the name of the new continent till recently, then the connection clicked, when I was reading an article about the child porn DNS censoring that is getting pushed through in Germany right now. Unfortunately it is in German.

http://www.internet-law.de/2009/05/die-uneinsichtigkeit-der-ursula-von-der.html

But ask yourself where oh where Aristotle is mixed up in all this congress stuff.

http://www.asacp.org/page.php?content=news&item=278

Because it's a big fat subsidy for their biz and we know it's not going to work in every country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen

http://www.matejunkie.com/opinion-on-germanys-possible-internet-censorship/

no, not congress, bundestag

also, note that the name of the new continent is Ursula... LL, I salute you for black humor!