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Is Virtual Rape a Crime?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the because-/quit-is-so-hard-to-type dept.

cyberianpan writes "Wired is carrying commentary on the story that Brussels police have begun an investigation into a citizen's allegations of rape in Second Life. For reasons of civil liberty & clarity we'd like to confine criminal law to physical offenses rather than thought crimes but already threats, menace & conspiracy count as crimes. Could we see a situation where our laws extend?"

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  1. Getting REAL police involved? by iceOlate · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What kind of a retard would get the REAL police involved in a VIRTUAL rape? What a waste of resources that could go towards investigating REAL crimes. If this sort of thing is a serious problem, then perhaps Second Life needs to have virtual police to do virtual investigations and virtual arrests, to send whatever virtual offender to a virtual prison. And then he can experience virtual prison rape! This is getting virtually rediculous!