ZOMG b00biez! ... Or not

[unixronin]

The FTC says kids can find adult content in virtual worlds.  You know, like Second Life.  And as we all know, God forbid our delicate, emotionally-fragile kids should see a low-detail, poorly-animated boob on a cartoonish avatar.

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[randwolf.livejournal.com]

The report doesn't say what CNN's summary says. Sample from the actual report:

Fourteen of the 27 online virtual worlds in the Commission’s survey were open to children under age 13. Of these 14 virtual worlds, the Commission found at least one instance of ex- plicit content on seven of them. Significantly, however, with the exception of one world, Bots, all of the explicit content observed in the child-oriented worlds occurred when the Commis- sion’s researchers visited those worlds as teen or adult registrants, not when visiting the worlds as children under age 13.

Moreover, in six of these seven child-oriented virtual worlds, the amount of explicit content observed was low. Only in the seventh child-oriented world, Stardoll, did the Commission find a moderate amount of explicit content. Because the Commission’s researchers examined these worlds with the express purpose of uncovering sexually and violently explicit content, it is unlikely that a typical user would stumble upon such content unintentionally.

I'm wondering if the Leibowitz quote is even accurate.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Old story, isn't it? "You can see WHAT, Mabel? Ooooh, shocking, Mabel, absolutely shocking! Pass me the binoculars!"

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

(Big grin)