Prokofy: “It’s only those who have something to hide who would begin to acquire something to fear.”

That’s a good point. Mind posting your home address or a credit card number?

WHY IS THAT MR. DURANSKE WHAT INFORMATION ARE YOU COLLECTING ARE YOU WORKING FOR ARISTOTLE?

http://virtuallyblind.com/benjamin-duranske-on-prokofy-neva/

Aside from posting this link, I don’t respond to her random, usually nonsensical attacks on me, the site I edit, and the organizations I belong to any more — it’s just not worth my time. The above potshot, which appears to have completely missed the point of the referenced article on VB, is no exception.

Interested readers can see my take on age verification in the context of IMVU here.

http://virtuallyblind.com/2007/09/24/imvu-age-verification/

The subheadings, not the writer’s strike.

Prokofy you being insulting and childlike only devalues any argument you have. When you speak like that you sound like a real jerk. Seems your ego has gotten the best of you as if we should all bow down to the all mighty, all knowing Prokofy. Have you no respect for other’s opinions? Apparently your sense of self worth has gotten the best of you. Obviously we should all just shut up, content in the fact that you know it all and anyone else’s opinion is worthless. Narcissism can be a nasty thing. I for one think you should apologize for your childish and intolerant attitude toward Jessica. Not that it will ever happen.

Learn a bit of respect Prokofy. Oh… And happy holidays!

The one thing about this about which I am confident no one will delude themselves is that “small” is not zero. There is a non-zero risk to RPA (request porn access).

Given that there is a risk, of whatever magnitude, and no reward, why do it? Since the big announcement, I know that probably 2/3 my ridiculous friends list have chosen not to take that risk. They chose not to verify. So did I. Their and my SL lives have changed not one bit as a result. Most rational people aren’t involving themselves in this needless risk. Their RL lives are a little bit safer from that choice.

The correct choice looks pretty obvious in this context. Don’t age verify. Those who set their land requiring it shrink their market. Economics will therefore take care of it all eventually.

As for individual parcels, at the customers’ request, I will check off “mature” and “verified”.

And if I see someone who puts in, say, a store with really graphic pictures and implements for sale, I will let them know that if they don’t check off mature and verified, they will face liability, and could be vulnerable to abuse reporting. That usually makes them move, or check off the box.

I don’t intend to go through my entire rentals system and check everything to mature and verified and then uncheck it after I have inspected each and every tenant’s content, any more than the Lindens will be doing that.

I follow exactly their model, to the letter.

I check off things that i can see are public adult things like a BDSM store or a no-tell adult motel with publicly available porn movies.

I give the customer the option of *deciding themselves* if their content is mature and has to be checked off.

And on everything else, I give them the benefit of the doubt and default to the notion of common law, which is “whatever is not forbidden is permitted” rather than the notion of civil law “everything that is not permitted is forbidden”.

People tend to notify me of any actionable activity going on, and I deal with it, so the attempt of people to set me up flops pretty fast. I run communities with groups of people cooperating in them, not maximum security compounds with isolated parcels.

Once again, age verification is not about trying to keep kids out 100 percent — in an age of parents out of the home, with kids having computers in their rooms, and able to grab cell phones or credit cards or whatever they need to verify, it’s not practical. But it’s *good enough*. You don’t need to have a tekkie anal-retentive 100 percent effective system, or knock a system that isn’t effective with malicious tabloid porn reporter’s glee, to have it be *limiting liablity*.

If I get offended by something I leave, I dont make a big song and dance about it, go fetch my pitchfork and join the preaching crowd.

As for verifaction, how is it going to help? “Think of the children” How about this, take the bloody computer off them til they are mature enough to be trusted with it, give them a football or a bike and get them outside to play and develop, oh wait, the pedos are all waiting outside in bushes for them…forgot about that…