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Accusations leveled at Second Life staff paint a grim picture of child abuse content in their virtual world (web.archive.org)
submitted 8 months ago by PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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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.

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 16 points 8 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.