Over the past day, the issue of simulated and actual child pornography in virtual worlds — particularly Second Life — has attracted the attention of mainstream international press outlets including the BBC, the CBC, and Australia’s The Age. Linden Lab says it is fully cooperating with German authorities.
The reports all stem from a German television news story that ran on a show called Report Mainz. The report itself (in German) is available as a RealPlayer video here. [Note: Particularly explicit portions of the video are “blurred,†but it is NSFW, and some readers may find portions disturbing.] There is a transcript of the report, also in German, here (Google translation here). The story largely focuses on depictions of apparent in-world sexual contact between adult avatars and avatars with child-like appearances, but also claims that photographs of real-life child sexual abuse have been made available in Second Life. (more . . .)
[via Regina Lynn]
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