Whose Legislature Is This?
We all know that gambling is banned from second life because U.S. government doesn't allow its residents to gamble on-line. And because they cannot nobody can. We also know that China doesn't want their residents to read things about Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and many more stuff on the internet. So they use a pretty large amount of processing power to block all the content they don't like. But, more or less, all this is employment of software against own residents. It can be much much worse. Read more…
Real Protesting in the Virtual World
No, I am not going to talk much about new Linden's banning of the gambling in second life. There is not much to say we already don't know. And I am not in the mood for ranting. (Hey, dandellion, what's up with you, are you OK?) I will accept the fact that some people are deaf and blind against their own good and against the basic moral principles. I won't go after the story that their dreams (and their money) are compromised by what they do. I don't care about their dreams. I care about our world. Read more…
Why Every Camping Casino Has to Be Ugly?
One of ways to get some change of blogging is to put your ass near camp master (camping chairs and dance pads were never an option for me) and stay there while typing in other window. So I headed to the place that pays 3$ for 15min, small furniture shop, simple but nice built with no crowd. Couple of days ago, I had nice conversation with tigress about weather and government. As soon as I got out of teleport and my dreadlocks got back to their place, gray prims still loading textures… Hey! Something is wrong here! Read more…
Gambling the Big Game
Just yesterday Reuters published that Linden Lab called the FBI to check if everything is OK with in-world gambling:
"We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise any concerns they would like, and we know of at least one instance that Federal agents did look around in a virtual casino," said Ginsu Yoon, until recently Linden Lab's general counsel and currently vice president for business affairs. "We have specifically requested that a US Attorney give us guidance on virtual gaming activity in SL, but this hasn't resulted in clear rules yet."
Why would anybody call the feds to its own party? Read more…
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