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.
Accused of:
-Enabling imaginary CSAM involving no children to “flourish” (?) in their virtual houses
-Ignoring that someone considers their virtual play only involving adults to be disgusting
-Creating a deeply toxic working environment within a company
One of these things is most definitely a problem if true!
Also not quite convinced the full article doesn’t have other problems. It has a smell.
The whole article smells a lot… but other than the toxic environment, it also claims other problems:
If true, those are punishable pretty much everywhere.
The part about removing ban lines from an invite-only explicit area, would also be quite suspicious.