Free Speech for Avatars! And…like…Now!

by Alphaville Herald on 06/11/04 at 2:32 pm

Ludlow blasts Stratics.

free0.png

In a Session at The State of Play entitled Avatar Rights, Virtual Liberty, and Free Expression in Virtual Worlds, Peter Ludlow blasted the organized censorship policies of Stratics, while Fred Schauer of Harvard University suggested that the possibilities for free expression in virtual worlds should be used to explore alternative models of free speech. Jack Balkin of Yale maintained that government and the legal profession were going to insert themselves into game worlds whether game devs like it or not and that by offering to protect free speech game companies may be able to insulate themselves from certain kinds of legal liability.

Streaming webcast of the talks can be found here.
Discussion on Terra Nova here.
Article by Daniel Terdiman in Wired Online is here.

Comments are closed.