“An ingenious system created for Second Life land holders to reduce incidents of harassment and abuse by malicious griefers has itself turned out to be a potentially nefarious tool of harassment and abuse. zF RedZone is a tool that was designed to help Second Life users identify and block problem users from entering their territory and wreaking havoc….
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Burning Man wants a mid-Market HQ, tax break or not
Black Rock City, which stages the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert and in a variety of regional Burning Man festivals, including one in Second Life, is now looking for a San Francisco headquarters and wants to apply the principles of Burning Man to a real life city. (Steven T Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian,…
Second Life Muslims confront Al-Qaeda Taliban group
When you enter OnIslam.net’s Second Life sim, a holy place with the Grand Mosque where you can do a virtual Hajj, the first thing you see are prominent signs barring Al-Qaeda everywhere you turn. Al-Qaeda in Second Life? The group that the sim is banning is “(Al-Qaeda-Taliban)the right path1”, which has 67 members. (NadiaLane, CNN iReports, Jan…
Religion, Robots and a Second Life: Apocalyptic AI
“One thing that really surprised me is that there are people in Second Life who think of their personalities in that world as distinct from and potentially severable from their personalities in conventional reality. Some of the folks whom I interviewed think (or at least talk) in terms of identities that are separate from their…