Comments on: Censorship and the Metaverse http://blog.pradprathivi.com/2010/02/03/censorship-and-the-metaverse/ Social Media and Virtual Worlds Commentary Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:01:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kim Food http://blog.pradprathivi.com/2010/02/03/censorship-and-the-metaverse/comment-page-1/#comment-5006 Kim Food Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:50:47 +0000 http://blog.pradprathivi.com/?p=2081#comment-5006 I believe the battle was lost the day LL started selling private islands (aka privately owned sims). They cant control the content of everybody's private estates, and to be honest with you I don't think they really care. It's so obvious, they were never serious with adult content and age verification. Their so-called "age verification" system is a total mess and doesnt work for many people. besides, it's totaly useless. Any kid could find their father's or mother's drivers license and copy off the right numbers in the right fields... Of course LL is responsible for the content of their money-making devices, but do they want to? All they really did this past year was try and find ways to bring more money into their pockets: They presented different types of sims to the residents, cheaper ones but the idea is to sell more of them. They created an "adult mainland" which use was to wipe out adult commerce from the mainland, but anybody can still sell adult content on private sims (and seriously, the big money makers are all using private sims). They bought the marketplaces, we all hoped they would merge them better with SL, but all they did is raise the costs... Censoring the content means losing money for LL. When LL start actively control ALL of inworld's content, it will be the end. ps: I find it silly when parents gets all upset when their kids see adult contents on the internet while they are probably cheating on their partner in the kitchen while the kids are home... *rolls eyes* I believe the battle was lost the day LL started selling private islands (aka privately owned sims). They cant control the content of everybody’s private estates, and to be honest with you I don’t think they really care. It’s so obvious, they were never serious with adult content and age verification. Their so-called “age verification” system is a total mess and doesnt work for many people. besides, it’s totaly useless. Any kid could find their father’s or mother’s drivers license and copy off the right numbers in the right fields…

Of course LL is responsible for the content of their money-making devices, but do they want to? All they really did this past year was try and find ways to bring more money into their pockets: They presented different types of sims to the residents, cheaper ones but the idea is to sell more of them. They created an “adult mainland” which use was to wipe out adult commerce from the mainland, but anybody can still sell adult content on private sims (and seriously, the big money makers are all using private sims). They bought the marketplaces, we all hoped they would merge them better with SL, but all they did is raise the costs…

Censoring the content means losing money for LL. When LL start actively control ALL of inworld’s content, it will be the end.

ps: I find it silly when parents gets all upset when their kids see adult contents on the internet while they are probably cheating on their partner in the kitchen while the kids are home… *rolls eyes*

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