My previous post on this article is misplaced, it belongs to another thread. Please remove. Thank you.

No. 2 is hard to avoid starting out in a democracy, but no. 1 is wrong and shouldnt’ be done. They need to eat the dogfood and use the new social media itself to do the oversight, and save the cost, or pay for their own costs.

LL does something like this, they pay all expenses for their select group of 8 FIC types to come and talk to them in their program called SL Views, which I’ve heavily criticized. It has no legitimacy.

As always, I have questions though, as I still don’t see a) the overarching ideal that we should ascribe to — integration and internationalism and universality? or promotion of identity to reach equality? and b) what is the national policy we should have growing out of this — why is it that high schools aren’t coping with these issues with existing state funding.

I don’t know how the social services are in California, but in New York City, I can only say that a high school student in a public school could not likely be telling a story of hunger and not having food because she could go to her free public school breakfast and lunch, and also get into programs for dinner, too, if her parents were low income or on welfare.

But here’s where you undermine yourself. By your own statements, you lead us to believe that you do not wish to incorporate any aspect of BDSM in your life. And yet, even without BDSM, you come across as a raving lunatic. You kinda make BDSM look good in comparison

I guess it’s true. She can’t stop talking about me. I’m feeling really creeped out. People have been IM’ing me their theories and… ugh.

You were so right about the intrusiveness and data-scraping of virtual world companies.

But you’re wrong about what’s happening now. Here’s why:

>the Linden desire to tell grownups what to do strikes
me as protofascist.

The Lindens didn’t tell grownups what to do. They themselves decided what they wished to remove or limit to avoid litigation and avoid loss of the service to Germans and other EU citizens. There are more Europeans than Americans now in SL.

They are telling people to assume responsibility for compliance with their own laws with their own adult content. Far from telling people what to do, they’re making them take responsibility. It’s up to us to abuse report what we find “broadly offensive”. Therefore our collective task now, whether fin, fish, FIC, or fowl, is to say: we will not abuse report anymore, full stop.

This is one thing we can all unite against, even those of us who hate factions of each other’s. You don’t have to like Gor or BDSM, or you don’t have to like the much-maligned and exaggerated “Christan right” (almost non-existence in SL) to all agree about a simple act of human solidarity across the board: do not inform on your neighbour. Do not abuse report.

All coercive states rely on one thing: the ability of citizens to undermine human solidarity and inform on one another. If everybody decides not to abuse report anything, the Lindens have no fodder for their arbitrary police enforcement.

If people are not willing to give up abuse reporting and persuade others to do so, they have absolutely no case when they whine and snivel that somebody is “making” them do something.

So the only thing proto-fascist here is some fanboyz who will abuse report others, or intimidate people like me who have been outspoken, as Csven has been doing threatening me over a swingset.

>the Linden desire to inflict american mainstream values on non mainstream americans and non-americans strikes me as imperialist.

Um, where’s the infliction of American mainstream values? Seriously, humdog, clime off your high horse, turn off the reaction machine, and LOOK at where this came from. NOT AMERICA. It came from secular and sleazy Europe, eh? Not Moral Majority American but Immoral Minority Europe.

Please, take the rant about moral majorities elsewhere. The Europeans made them do it.