Mario Gerosa: “Stop the Criminalization of Second Life!”

It seems like every day there is more bad press about the moral and legal problems with Second Life. Ageplay, for example, has caught the attention of courts and media outlets ranging from the US, to the Netherlands, to Germany, to France to Italy. Mario Gerosa has said “enough is enough” and is fighting back. [...]

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Linden Lab’s Job Fair in Boston – With Open Bar?

An LL wanna-be attends real life job fair – and is not impressed by JayR Cela In the 21 months that I have been a citizen of Second Life, much has changed. SL is no longer a just a RPG hang out. Real life is encroaching, and the best we can do it roll with [...]

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Robin Linden’s Broadly Offensive Behavior Office Hour

Residents question Robin Linden on “deliberately left vague” policy statement by Myrrh Massiel Since Linden Lab’s recent crackdown on ageplay expanded to include additional forms of broadly offensive behavior, several thousand residents have gathered under the banner of United Protest to seek a reversal of Linden Lab’s new policies of intolerance. Yesterday, leaders from various [...]

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Funnelling Newbies: The New Business Portals

At new AzureIslands Welcome area: helping others is helping oneself to a full roster of paying tenants. By Prokofy Neva, FIC 2.0 Watch Linden Lab finally officially announced today a plan that has been in the works for more than a year: funnelling the newbie sign-up stream to a dozen or so of their favourite [...]

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French Watchdogs Yap at Linden Lab

More reasons for “Keeping Second Life Safe, Together”? by Onder Skall GamePolitics reported today that the parent-teacher group Familles de France (FdF), in yet another effort to avoid raising their own children, is suing Linden Lab for allowing access to pornographic material to minors. They were recently shocked to discover that the Internet has porn [...]

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My Transformation

True story of how hermaphrodite hyena turns humans into furres via intercourse![An exclusive first hand account of how human avatars are turned into furries. Names have been changed to protect the yiffilicious from the officious. If you are (i) at work or (ii) under 18 or (iii) easily offended by things like yiffing STOP READING [...]

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Here We Come, caLLiefornia!

Top 100 MAXIM Girl opens new sim by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista Yesterday afternoon I had a very special opportunity to explore caLLiefornia and Dulce Del Mare pre-opening and get an inside look at the new sim that so many are excited about. Modern lines add a youthful appearance to Second Life in Kiana Dulce’s [...]

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King Bruno Ziskey of Sparta

by Tundra Koba, war correspondent I’ve was lucky to interview Bruno Ziskey, leader of Sparta, the most creative military group I’ve seen so far in Second Life. Sparta is quickly increasing on its numbers and is creating the most powerful non-grieving guns for a military group in Second life I’ve seen. Who better to describe [...]

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Siobhan OFlynn – Post 6 Grrrl

[The Herald editorial board interrupts this week's metaverse drama-fest for our traditional start-of-the-weekend feature, courtesy of Marilyn Murphy - photographer, visionary, and publisher of Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine. This week, we celebrate someone super special - with a great avatar to match her personality and style: Siobhan OFlynn. -- the Editrix] I’ve been a [...]

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Fear and Loathing in Second Life: The New Sex and Violence Policy

By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk. Op-Ed. The new Linden policy on explicit sexual and violent material in Second Life is going to cause a total uproar. It was posted this evening California time at 6:00 pm, and not everyone may have noticed it. It is signed not by Robin Linden, who has signed the [...]

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