Support The Myanmar Monks
At this moment, there is an in-world support of the protests in Myanmar/Burma. We are keeping the avatar chain (it is hard to call it a human chain) and occupying at least two sims. One is completely full, I think there is some space on the other. We'll spread to the next one if needed.
Serbia Is Entering Second Life
Last night in Jazz Institute, Belgrade, 8PM (11AM SLT) Serbia opened its island in Second Life.
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…
Rape Again
There is a lot of noise lately about rape and other sex related violence in virtual worlds provoked by Regina Lynn’s article Virtual Rape Is Traumatic, But Is It a Crime? This post is a comment on the subject originally written at Second Tense.
Rape inside the virtual worlds came to my attention a month or so ago by two unrelated occasions. First was a post on some feminist’s site which attacked the possibility of role-playing the rape scene in second life. Other one was what can be called an attempt of rape of myself. These two combined led to a little investigation of mine which resulted in Many Ways To Rape. Read more…
Flow My Tears…
…the policeman said. If you don’t know what I am talking about from those three words in the title you are officially obliged to leave this page, go to the library or book shop and get all the Philip K. Dick’s books this very instant! Otherwise you are allowed to continue your business as normal….
Hey! Real life cops are strolling the streets of Second Life! First Linden Labs invited FBI to check the in-world casinos. Now we hear that Belgium police patrols the sims in search for virtual sex criminals. 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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