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Second Life Mogul Challenges Press Freedom
An anonymous reader tipped us to a post on ZDNet about some disturbing freedom of the press issues in Second Life. Content mogul Anshe Chung is filing DMCA complaints with organizations that post screenshots of her content, citing an infringement of copyright. From the article: "The issue has surfaced after the avatar Anshe Chung (real name Ailin Graef) was attacked by animated flying penises during a virtual interview with CNET news, conducted in their Second Life bureau last month. A video of the attack surfaced on YouTube, and was then taken town after Anshe Chung Studios filed a DMCA complaint. The Sydney Morning Herald and the blog BoingBoing have also received similar notices."
I know too little about SL's terms of service, etc. to have an opinion about this censoring of videos, but I have a hypothetical question about an analogous situation.
What would people think if YouTube or its ilk featured videos of actual rapes?
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Why are you so intolerant toward my belief that you are made of magical cheese? Sure, there is no scientific evidence that you are made of cheese, but science doesn't enter in to it because it's magical.
My guess is that most atheists are angry because magic-believers are voting based on their completely unsubstantiated delusions.
Atheists are no more intolerant than you are. Do you refer to people in asylums as "insane"? If you do, you are intolerant of their beliefs.
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