I have no problems with people not liking adult content in their backyard, and at the same time, segregating adult content is a conservative preventative way of thinking. and pushing limits onto the world is going to hurt LL and SL in the long run.

Gore
32 hits. Including
Gore Lovers – We are people who relish the wonderful sadistic art that is Gore, Blood,

Geisha’s of Gore
babes with blades ! hoo fuckin haaa!! also just people the officers think are hot/cute/fuckable ….
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Right, so some SL censor somewhere believes that the name for a made up Science Fiction world that was mainstream published in the 1960s is so dangerous to SL’s public morality that you have to have jumped though hoops to see it, but hot blood drenched babes are absolutely fine.

I’m guessing Gore is unblockable too, due to a certain well know ex-vice president and climate change campaigner. What an absolutely stupid idea this whole thing is.

The poll is about how users feel about the policies.

It was a simple business decision. LL is marketing aggressively to businesses, corporation, governments. How about an option for “this is a smart BUSINESS move by LL that will assure further growth of the grid”?

Good news, we just managed to get Ladyboy removed from the current “secret” filterlist and could close http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-2736

I also had a long chat with Blondin 2 days ago about that issue and repeatedly asked him to open for dialogue and work things out together with residents instead against them.

Given both I still have some hope for the better, although not much.

It wouldn’t be upsetting if they made a PG continent, it would attract the business and people interested in that, and they would police themselves fiercely. We might even have a outlet there.

But my issue is with private estates/island/sims.
I’m still not sure what it will mean for Private estates, We always have had the mature setting on our sims, just because it grants you the most freedoms. We don’t do anything that is not pg 99,999% of the time. I don’t like to pre-emptively relinquish freedoms.

I like to think that our sims are open for everyone, even the people without payment on file or age verification. But if I do that, as I understand it, I for instance wouldn’t be allowed(by the tos) to work on skins in our sims. Setting the sim to AO would make us disappear in search for Corporate business purposes.

The stupid the thing is even if we do, the likeness that we would be reported would be negligible. For me that proves my point, that they are doing this backwards.

The likeness that any of us will reported for doing something wrong(according to the tos) will be tiny to zero, and as such we will all be breaking the law(tos), because it can’t be enforced and is undesired. Even the corporates and educationals will be breaking the law at times.

So why make a rule that will be unjust, only penalizing the few people who do get reported from time to time, while the majority does the same. It would quickly reek of favouritism, even if it ain’t the case.

If LL just limited their changes to their estates, I would be fine with it. They should be able to structure their estates as they feel like it, as I can ban anyone who not wears purple if I feel like that. My worry is about private estates connected to the grid.

This makes we feel that it is time for LL to split up, in easily recognizable parts, sim/server rental, the linden estate, and the software development. But I should explore what that would mean somewhere else.

There IS a need to control adult content, but for those who own sims and land who need to not see it. Hence why I suggested a completely different idea based on content ratings.

I suspect a lot of this is pressure by government to control not only adult content, but IP issues, such as the Taser lawsuit. I wish they would address this in a more logical manner by actually listening to the customers who said quite clearly why they didn’t like Second Life.

http://www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?id=290

The flat out fact is that age verification is not allowed in most foreign countries in this manner. The beginning of this whole brouhaha started with a German TV station (public TV, which has a TV fee everyone pays as a tax, mind) and German courts have thrown out the idea of taking credit cards and public ID in court. All that you can do is buy a yearly subscription to a very expensive USB dongle which effectively monitors everything you do on your computer.

If that’s not a privacy issue, nothing is. If I was forced to use that in Second Life, I would leave Second Life. And I know, darn well… that there is a good chance the child protection agencies will one day latch on this fact.

My biggest concern on LL atitude in this issue, it is how they are going to deal with the adult content and keep it on a “safe” place. Mean while there are much more problems to solve they are trying to do the same over and over, like Crap Mariner says “enforcement is key”, At least those who still have a moral guideline still up to fight against that. I will vote o Jira asap ( not possible on work ).

I think that the policy appears to be getting hammered out with a lot of communication between those affected and LL, but as with any major policy change, communication of this policy to those enforcing it and consistency of enforcement is key.

I’ve gotten notes from folks that have gotten nailed for various policies that should have gotten warnings first. These gunslinger wannabes present within G-Team should be slower to shoot first and ask questions later, because all the transcripts show their higher-ups suggest investigations and talking things out, then acting.

Being Abuse/customer-facing with judgment calls does such, I admit. Been there myself. But in the heat of the moment, the good ones can sweat a little before reaching for the six-shooter.

-ls/cm