Reply to LT
(as the response I sent didn't go through)

My *packs* was ironic as I think the idea of Augie takeover is wrong. However, I'm struggling to understand age verification. My own take on it is LL doesn't want to be held accountable for what every anonymous person chooses to do in SL. What I see is that age verification and the like will make it more attractive for people to run their own servers, i.e. they can be responsible for the content.

While I think that German "news" squad set the virtual faked "child" rape scenario up (and participated), there's no denying that such things go on in SL as in RL. Robin must've felt horrible. I think LL would love to get such things out of their hardware. They are making all this up, remember, and don't have the answers. No one does.

I think the age verification is like excising tissue to remove the diseased part - healthy tissue is removed as well. I think it's a knee-jerk and hasty reaction to get clean legally and make the SL setting less attractive to people who need anonymity for their creepy uh... whatevers.

I'd guess the structure that would make sense would be for SL (including the Linden grid and other grids) to be the huge commons area with (privately hosted) side pockets of various types, from a couple's lovenest to a casino. Dunno...

All I will do is watch and see what happens, at the moment. Now is the time for people with great ideas to come out and say them. On the one hand people treat SL like it's a world where residents need to be accorded all rights, but at the same time they regard SL as a product and cast their eyes around to see what other products are on the horizon. For me, SL is a place, and I am willing to change and grow with it, since it, like the real world, is not a perfect place. The process demands participation. If we graze from VR to VR we likely will wind up with nothing.

*stands her ground*

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