Comments on: Gambling sector shut down: what now?

By: Surviving on the streets of Second Life » VTOR - Virtual TO Reality

Surviving on the streets of Second Life » VTOR - Virtual TO Reality — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:01:53 +0000

[...] gambling ban. The one reason I even had some money. Any money. It was like the stock market crash of 1989 but [...]

By: Darius Sartre

Darius Sartre — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:54:51 +0000

Yeah…. well… here’s the thing. I did note (after the fact)that those in EU might not get the whole political perspective since it’s more of our end of things here in the States. The knee jerk reaction of Entropia thing is a tweak at the whole illegal immigrant thing in the US going on.

I loved your comments though… and I do agree that there is a lot more to do than just sex and gambling.

It’s funny. With all the banning going on right now, you would imagine things like WSE and Ginko would also get banned. In all technicality, banking and stocks are not regulated and could become another “legal” issue for Linden.

Argh. You know what? I don’t see why they don’t just leave everything alone. The world has its joys too (1st life) and also its seedy things. You don’t want to play, don’t play in those areas. They just don’t want legal issues. It’s rather unfortunate that they want to create a virtual community and world that sort of plays off real life, but yet won’t regulate the virtual community and takes the easy way out (banning).

You would think with 100+ employees, regulation would be in there somewhere.

Oh well. Makes me sad.

But the good thing is that with all the banning, it gives me something good to write about! Since I’m too lazy to actually mess with prims like you. lol.

By: Caliandris Pendragon

Caliandris Pendragon — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:42:27 +0000

Ok… I read it again, feeling sure I must have missed the big pointers in the last four lines. The trouble is I think sex IS next on the hit list, no irony intended. It seems to me that - for whatever reason - SL is moving from a libertarian paradise where anything goes as long as it isn’t illegal and doesn’t hurt anyone, to a place with a lot of rules about content. They have already banned age play, gambling and sex in the popular places list.

I put the fact that I missed the satire in your piece down to the fact that I meet a lot of sad people who do rely on the popular places list for their entertainment, which was sex and gambling, basically, until it got tweaked by the Lindens.

However, I apologise for being dense. I can only say it’s a good job I deleted my original comments and took some time to compile the what to do article lol!

By: Darius Sartre

Darius Sartre — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:45:15 +0000

It’s called satire.

By: Caliandris Pendragon

Caliandris Pendragon — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:29:39 +0000

It’s a complete fallacy that Sl only has sex and gambling to do in-world.

I was going to rant in this comment, but decided to post myself on it!