Germans Pursuing Kiddie Porn In Second Life

Several readers sent in links to the BBC, which has picked up news of a German investigation into child pornography in Second Life. A German TV station captured images of two avatars, an apparent adult and an apparent child, involved in sexual activity. The station also said they had infiltrated a ring trading real-world child porn in SL. SL creator Linden Labs is cooperating fully with the investigation, they write on their official blog: "Our investigations revealed the users behind these avatars to be a 54-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman. Both were immediately banned from Second Life." The German prosecutor's office hasn't responded to Linden's offer of help in identifying the real-world traders.

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Re:Counterstrike?

[theStorminMormon]

And yet many of us who play Counterstrike do own guns. What's your point?

Not much of a statistician, are you? My point was that there is a strong correlation between simulating child porn and wanting to see real child porn, whereas the correlation between gun ownership and CS - if there is one at all - is likely much lower.

If no CS players owned guns there would be a very strong negative correlation. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying no strong correlation at all. Which means that roughly as many CS players will own guns as the general population (possibly adjusting by age, race, income, education, etc. if you want to get snazzy.)