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• 10.11.09
  Child Avatars in Virtual Worlds: Freedom and Progress? Identity and Expression, Privacy and Protection, Second Life | (10)

  I hadn't quite expected to find Adam Thierer's appearance on Metanomics to be so, well, stimulating. I'm immediately suspicious, I suppose, of organizations with names like the "Progress and Freedom Foundation", as if the name itself is a sleight-of-hand for anything but. But Thierer made a compelling case for a light (or non-existent) regulatory hand on-line, although I found the outer reaches of his argument a little frustrating - there's a kind of iron-clad logic that brooks little argument which bothers me. But Thierer DID come up against the limits of his viewpoint when it came to digital representations of children ...

  Tagged: adam thierer, child protection, government, metanomics, policy, regulation, Virtual worlds
  

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