As you may recall, just over a week ago, I put a poll out there asking people what their opinions were about Linden Lab's upcoming content policies for Second Life. Not why they thought the policy was being made, but how they felt personally about it.

The overall balance of responses varied a fair bit for the first hundred or so votes, but the proportions settled down and remained remarkably consistent throughout the next couple of hundred votes through to the end.

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That's the question we've been getting asked since the announcement of the new definitions of PG, Mature, and Adults-Only content for Linden Lab's Second Life. We've been working on that question ever since. Interestingly, the new published definitions allow some content that was previously expressly forbidden.

According to Linden Lab, "Real-life images, avatar portrayals, and other depiction of sexual or lewd acts involving or appearing to involve children or minors; real-life images, avatar portrayals, and other depictions of sexual violence including rape, real-life images, avatar portrayals, and other depictions of extreme or graphic violence, and other broadly offensive content are never allowed or tolerated within Second Life."

Well, until now.

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