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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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[–] Fal@yiffit.net 37 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Calling this child abuse is what's fucking disgusting. This is adults role playing with fucking digital renderings. Literally no children involved. Go clutch pearls elsewhere

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago (11 children)

They specifically called it "child abuse content", not "child abuse". This seems perfectly valid, no?

By the way, just because these are digital renderings does not mean that there is no harm. Seeing such content can still be harmful to past victims. Just try to put yourself in this situation: imagine just playing some video game online, and suddenly being exposed to people recreating traumatic experiences from your past. Not only that - you also discover that the creators of the video game are involved & actively enabling such content. Seems completely messed up to me.

[–] Fal@yiffit.net 6 points 8 months ago

By the way, just because these are digital renderings does not mean that there is no harm. Seeing such content can still be harmful to past victims.

This is true of literally everyone and any one. Anyone can be victimized by anything and be traumatized by seeing it. That's not a reasonable argument to throw around accusations of child abuse.

They specifically called it “child abuse content”, not “child abuse”. This seems perfectly valid, no?

No, this is not valid. MAYBE if they added "fictional child abuse content" or something, but even that would be misleading. There's no child, so it can't be child abuse, and thus can't be child abuse content.

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