New Rules For Adult Content: Who Fuckin’ Cares?

I’ve just heard some noise about adult content in Second Life®. Again. So I dragged my lazy ass to the official Linden Lab blog to see what’s it all about. And, of course, there is a story about how they will filter search results (don’t we have that already?) and how adult areas will be separated from the rest of the mainland and how private islands will be flagged and that there will be some verification but paying info counts. All that will be done so that everybody can enjoy Second Life® without fear that they might encounter occasional nipples or some other adult content. There is only one thing that is not clear to them: what IS adult content?

And there is one other thing that interests me: Who fuckin’ cares about all that?

I mean, aren’t we all tired of the subject? We don’t need help of an oracle to know what will happen in the next days: 

• there will be a lot of noise in the SL blogosphere and large part of the second life population that cares about what’s going on out of their parcel will be pissed
• LL will spend some time discussing what is adult content
• then they will post another article on the blog with new policy defined and put official
• there will be more buzz in the blogosphere
• then we’ll all happily forget about it. Because nothing important will happen.

Linden Lab has better things to do than to check if anybody’s poseballs are around. But they have to show up in public. Good thing is that this time they really made that post good. I really mean it! It addresses benefit of the whole community and calls for public opinion and discussion. And the policy doesn’t sound fascistic as it was the case when they made their first attempt of age and identity verification.

Only thing that might come out as problematic is that flagging thing. Do they really expect that world will be divided to the part where private sex bed is allowed and the one where everybody is in celibacy? I don’t think so, but maybe I am wrong. But I am sure that hard and strict policy like that is not going to work. Hopefully, they know it too. We’ll all just lose time and nerves about it and nothing will be solved. From all we could read (check NWN’s post with a bit more clarifications from Cyn Linden), Lindens are not in the mood to ban everything sex related from the new formed ghetto, just to concentrate genital shops and huge brothels.

We’ll see…. if we care…