The Reality of Second Life’s Ageplay Problem
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A disturbing insight into why Linden Lab continues to allow children to be sexualized within Second Life.

Strong Content Warning: This article discusses child abuse and contains blurred explicit images.

Second Life users are in a frenzy over this article, published on Sunday, which details how a key member of parent company Linden Lab was participating in virtual sex content containing child avatars. Patch Linden, AKA Eric Nix, his husband, and several other high level members of Linden Lab staff are accused of enabling child abuse content to flourish in their privately owned virtual residences, ignoring explicit content involving virtual children, and creating a deeply toxic working environment at the company.

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
    16·
    10 months ago

    Wow, that’s some wall of text. Between the language used (royal “we”?), the severity of the accusations, the mention of a smear campaign against “the authors”… why is that thing on Medium, instead of on police reports?

    The livelihoods of too many people depend on Second Life

    Maybe they shouldn’t, they’re the original NFT peddlers before NFTs went blockchain.

    The whole thing reads like a hissy fit between some internal factions. I’m also kind of surprised SL is still a thing, I thought it went free/self-hosted with alternative clients and grids many years ago.