Ah, nothing like a trip down memory lane: like when the Internet was a cesspool of perversion and danger that we should keep our kids away from; or like Rock & Roll which was a threat to the fabric of society; or like that apple up in the tree - don’t touch it! It’s scary!
NBC News has trotted out the bogeyman again, parading expert psychiatrists and concerned moms to warn of the dangers of unfettered content in virtual worlds like Second Life.
Really, this kind of thing is such a hopeless news filler and feels oh so 2007.
By way of Greg Verdino and CenterNetworks.
And beware those evil art galleries with their twisted prims! Oh, the unspeakable horror…
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TV “news” demonstrates yet again that its intellectual credentials couldn’t fill the shallow end of a baby pool.
Interesting thing about all those “concerned” journalists is that they so easily find sex and drugs and whatever in second life. How comes they never find any education and creativity? I guess it has something to do with THEIR interests. Which is OK, but don’t blame the world because of your dirty search queries.
Actually, it is time that somebody sue their asses off for misreporting. Second Life is not a world for teens and they obviously know that. Still, they insist on negative propaganda.
Wow, could they work any harder to find the “really bad things” they are looking for and ignore the other 95% (or whatever–I never run across this stuff)? Geeze.
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Honestly, the lead of this story is the most irresponsible part of it. ALL of SL is the “dark side of the web”? This is absolutely horrible journalism.
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