Point of fact – a verbatim reading of the First Amendment can be said to protect extremist views and publications of any type.
And since you just HAD to exhume the “Reds under the bed” corpse, I trust you’re aware that one of our most fanatical anti-Commoes(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rupertmurdoch.jpg )was invaluable to Chinas media-filtering efforts?

No?

>They are not tolerant; they scream about forcing others to tolerate them, but they are not tolerant of ANY criticism or pushback against their efforts to take over, everywhere, and bleed their….nausteating dysfunction into the public space.

OH THE IRONY

If someone dares to disagree with you in any field you have this amusing tendency to turn around and apply some imaginary group to them, cite that this group is somehow out to get you and cap it all off by attempting to silence them and have others do the exact same thing.

Yet heaven forbid someone do the same thing to you!

Grow up Dearie. Your tactics belong in post World War Two America – not in these more modern times.

This is a misrepresentation of the position I took, for example, and yet another example of how Miss Jessica inserts Asian-Values type of spins on things where possible, instead of understanding the First Amendment in the country where she ostensibly studied law school.

The problem with the extremism of Gor, BDSM, and Creepy Kids, is that they drive out everybody else. They even drive out each other at times, or they drive out furries. They are not tolerant; they scream about forcing others to tolerate them, but they are not tolerant of ANY criticism or pushback against their efforts to take over, everywhere, and bleed their slavery, violence, and nausteating dysfunction into the public space.

It’s not about them “not being tolerated to speak in the public space”. It’s about the problem of how once they are brought in, they drive everyone else away. It’s not just the discomfort level people feel; it’s that the entire tone of the event changes. It becomes Fringe; it becomes dystopian. And that’s wrong.

I think the Lindens did the right thing as a social policy to have a PG Birthday at which extremist representations like this are not portayed. Again, the Lindens didn’t say “No Goreans, BDSM, or Creepy Kids can come”. They said *they can’t enter builds into the space*.

Are builds exactly the same thing as speech? Well, perhaps, technically, one might find them as such, and

Once again, Miss Jessica is being terribly selective and tendentious, because she finds it perfectly acceptable for China to keep out dissidents from the Internet and even jail them, and says this is “the law,” and ISPs and VWPs have to abide by it, but the minute any of her extremist subcultural gonzo journo life is encroached upon in her mind, she screeches “Censorship!”

The mistake any of us make is the belief that we are indispensable. As Kenny Linden explained, “There’s always another guy to buy the island.” $60,000 in tier is chump change, and a nothing compared to the prospects of having that $60,000 foreclose on millions of other tier from big corporations, governments, schools, ordinary end users who are turned off by slavery and violence. And that’s fine. It’s normal.

Um…you *DO* realize this is role play right? Not real life slavery?

Ok…just checking.

Children in kennels…I got into trouble for that once. I made a girlfriend on the inside and my sons have yet to forgive me.

So how is a child in a kennel “legal”, but any other act with a child per SL is not? I just don’t understand. Sex is abuse under a certain age but detaining by kennel is not? Where’s the line?

However……

That does not make them immune from criticism, for example the fact that sexual ageplay is already banned comes to mind. If that is the case, why did they initially ban all child avatar orientated builds from SL5B? Since sexual ageplay is banned, it’s obvious they’d remove sexually orientated builds from child avatars, but what about innocent sandcastles etc? What comes to mind here is that people are linking “children == too sexual for a PG area”. That is way more disturbing to me than 2 adults roleplaying in private.

As for Gor/BDSM, if they want to make SL5B more PG now then it’s up to them. From a business viewpoint it makes sense not to market themselves (and SL5B is a big marketing thing to an extent) on the sexual aspects of SL unless they want to be branded as an adult entertainment provider.

Some virtual worlds (red light center comes to mind) are intended as adult entertainment, some aren’t intended as adult entertainment but are full of it anyway (like SL). If your ISP doesn’t filter porn but doesn’t actually advertise “you can download porn on our service” then it isn’t discriminating, it’s just appealing to the largest target audience. Second Life is the same: LL know there’s tons of sexual content out there and they aren’t banning all of it (emphasis on ALL of it), but that doesn’t mean they have to promote it. However, when they start blatantly discriminating against certain communities beyond simple non-promotion then that’s another issue entirely.