It seems that identity verification has arrived in Second Life. I believe the accessing-flagged-areas is just a kind of carrot and that the more important reason for IDV is so that when there's a legal dispute people can't laugh and say they didn't give true information at sign-up. I don't particularly like the idea, but if it were LL doing the verifying I wouldn't be too bothered about it, though. As it stands my only real objection is that the third party verification company is Aristotle.

I don't mind giving my driver license number to someone without an agenda (or even with an agenda I approve of), but Aristotle is part of the general evil abounding in the USA (spreading to the rest of North America) at the moment and feeds off the leavings of the institutional evildoers. I can only assume it was the feds who recommended Aristotle as a way for LL to comply with their rules.

I don't understood why Americans haven't taken to the streets about what's going on here. It's been years - things are getting worse and worse by leaps and bounds. I question why anyone would think an election would change anything when two presidential elections in the past were stolen. I hear from a friend that "there will be an overwhelming number" of opposition voters in 2008. Well, it's not my country.

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