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www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=i…

For those that are unaware… the purpose of this picture is in direct relation to:

In March, Linden Labs announced they would be making changes to the way people would access content inworld.

*******The following is a summary prepared by DanielRavenNest Noe******

Linden Labs is planning on separating "Adult Content" from people who are not verified to see it. This is a summary of the plans coming from reading their blog and forum posts about it.

(1) What is this all about?

Separating what they define as "adult content" from SL people who are not verified to see it.
The Blog post is here:

blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/blog/2009/04/21/…

The definitions are on this page:

support.secondlife.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=441…

There have been thousands of forum comments on the subject already, with a few answers from Blondin Linden on this thread:

forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=314444

(2) How will they do this?

Right now, land has two categories, Mature, and PG, and there are no limits to anyone to visit them. They will add a new category, Adult, and only people who have been verified will be able to visit/TP, or see search results for adult places.

They are creating a new mainland continent, Ursula, which will be all adult rated sims. Adult rated estates/islands will stay where they are. Some clubs and businesses will have to move to the Ursula, if Linden Labs decides they have to. You can see the Ursula sims on the in-world map if you search for that sim name, but you cant visit it yet.

(3) What is verified?

secure-web7.secondlife.com/account/verification.php?lang=en

go to the SL website, log in to your account, then use either the "Age Verification" or "Update Billing Information" links on the left in the blue area. Either one will work. They are accepting government ID, or valid credit card/paypal to prove you are adult.

If you spent outside money on XStreet that will also verify you. Transferring L$ from second life does not.

(4) What is the timing?

It is planned to be announced generally to SL in a few weeks, and the actual changes in June/July.

(5) How does this affect you?

If you have an adult club or business, it will have to be located on an adult rated sim. If you work at or visit such a place, you will have to be verified to reach it. The definition of "adult" is pretty broad – if its advertised in search, it is restricted to only verified people.

(6) Any chance of it not happening?

They already have decided to do this whether we like it or not. The changes to the sim/server software to enable the adult category have already been rolled out in version 1.26.2.
The changes to the client software (what runs on your home computer) will be coming in the next version (1.23).

(7) Does this mean I cant use my sex bed at home/other adult stuff in private?

Comments from the Linden staff have been on both sides of this issue. In general, if its in private then it can stay in a mature region, but at times the following has been said to make it public: Ad or event listed in search, sending out notecards, advertising on the web outside of SL.

Thats it for the known facts, the rest of this is my personal opinions:
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(8) Problems with this change/workarounds/unanswered issues

(a) It does not really verify you are over 18.
It only proves you could get the right information to put in the website, or spent money with Linden Labs. Even then, if an adult verifies an account, an underage person could later log in on that account. Fake ID info has worked for some people.

(b) It will lose business for adult places in many ways:
Newbies who have not verified yet will not be able to visit or search for them. Even if a newbie wants to find adult stuff, if nobody can let him know how to verify, he wont find out. Any place that has to move will make its old landmarks obsolete and probably lose rank in search

(c) Not everyone will verify
People might not want to link their adult fetishes with their real identity by verifying, or trust the third party site that does the verifying, and so not everyone will do it

(d) Mainland Mature and PG regions will not be adult free after this:
Freelance escorts can still hang around non-adult areas and solicit customers, even if the landowner doesn’t directly encourage it. Newbies can still wander around naked with their cock attached. People on private land can still do their thing, and everyone else can still ppek via camera controls, or just see it if its outdoors

(e) Search will be gamed:
Whatever naughty

IN THIS DAY AND AGE AND WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION AND THE "TERRORISM ACT’S" POWERS HAVING BEEN EXPANDED,,,,, ONE DOES WONDER DOESN’T ONE ……….
AND NOW THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO LEGALLY TRACK EVERYONE ……READ BELOW

January 18, 2011
The dangerous internet passport proposal
Lee DeCovnick

Since this Administration never lets a crisis go to waste I thought it would be useful to dig out at least one significant announcement that the White House purposefully buried in the wake of the Tucson shootings. From the Washington Times editorial page, we find this evil spawn, courtesy of those delightful jackanapes at the White House. Note the use of the term "White House cybersecurity advisor." That’s media speak for one of the more than three dozen unconfirmed Marxist -leaning czars appointed by Obama, his hand picked shadow government in-waiting.

The White House cybersecurity adviser joined Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to announce what amounts to a national ID card for the Internet.

Their plan is straightforward. Instead of logging onto Facebook or one’s bank using separate passwords established with each individual company or website, the White House will take the lead in developing what it calls an "identity ecosystem" that will centralize personal information and credentials. This government-approved system would issue a smart card or similar device that would confirm an individual’s identity when making online credit-card purchases, accessing electronic health care records, posting "anonymous" blog entries or even logging onto one’s own home computer, according to administration documents.

Officials insist this would be a voluntary program and deliver significant benefits to the public.

Centralizing access to personal information only makes it easier for the bad guys because it means they only need to steal one key to unlock a vast wealth of financial and personal information. It’s likely that the real motivation for this is to ensure the feds always have backdoor access into what people are doing in the online realm.

Good Lord! If we allow these "internet passports" to become law, we will surely end up with health care passports, carbon credit passports and, of course, food and nutrition passports.

We know with 100% certainty that the government cannot keep these programs secure. We know with 100% certainty the government will gleefully track every web site you visit, every keystroke you send, every purchase you make, every deposit and withdrawal, every blog comment, and every Facebook and Twitter post. A simple algorithm will create lists of your acquaintances and friends and inform the government of your political affiliations, political donations, clubs, interests and hobbies.

This would not only be the end of personal privacy; we would have good running start at an authoritarian American gulag. Thanks to the socialist thugs appointed by Obama, American’s must now focus Congress’s attention on rejecting this cynical evisceration of our Constitutional protections of privacy, speech, press and association.