By Prokofy Neva, Virtualator
CAPTURE ROLEPLAYER TOUTS LINDEN-FAVOURED SOCIALIST ISLAND IN MAINLAND COMMUNITIES THREAD
So, animats, an anonymous but persistent forums poster who used to have Capture Roleplay (i.e. rape) groups in his profile as we all know, but who has recently removed them, apparently finally realizing they are damaging to one's reputation, is touting Neufriestadt on the forums. I used to call it "Friestwiththat," not only because it rhymes, but because I thought their socialist ideals would not really lead to any better society, but would mean more people would be daubing the FryMax on hot griddles, then shaking out chemical products known as "french fries" on them to turn the substance -- the hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavour (derived from what and milk derivatives, dextrose, pyrophosphate etc a lovely golden brown.
Some of you will remember my own beef with "animats" which has to do with not only his insane idea of using the Capture Roleplay BDSM viewer called "Restrained Life" to "solve the region crossings problem" (!), something that didn't take me but techies to immediately denounce, but him abuse-reporting me frivolously in his belief that a parking lot ramp that encroached slightly into a Linden road over in Grote (over bumpy land they wouldn't fix and which made it impossible to drive out on to the road) was somehow responsible for his unseating in a motor vehicle. If you look at the road in Juanita and Zephyr, you realize how much prim drift, strange hard prim angles, and odd invisible prims meant to help sim crossings but which failed, are really the issue here. All of that is STILL THERE and causes those idiotic riderless pods to stop and crash there ALL THE TIME until I click on them or try to sit in them to get rid of them, adding to their false statistics of use, as 100% of the ones I see every day on dozens of sims are EMPTY. EMPTY. EMPTY.
No doubt my pointed remarks about this beloved democratic socialist experiment (you always have to worry when either democracy becomes an adjective, or needs an adjective, in my view) will get the thread closed. That is, it doesn't matter that this vicious interloper "animats" has touted an island community in a sim about Mainland (and technically they may still have that snow sim near the Linden's massive alpine wonder Zematt or whatever it's called, although I think it died not long after Ulrika Zugzwang, a socialist operative and friend of Haney's, left SL); I think they sold it years ago. It doesn't matter that they had a rocky history, with terrorism from their own member against their buildings, not surprising given their terrorism against me on the forums. Ulrika Zugzwang is no longer active in SL but she used to harass me on the Internet outside of SL too. I was a critic of these people who enjoyed Linden favouritism and they retaliated with brutal force. And I wasn't alone in that criticism -- read about Haney at work and how people speak up with irate concern about yet another favouritism outlet, the "Greeters" program.
The Greeters slung notecards with their own friends' stores and commerce circles and socializing venues, and nothing could be done about it except to blog about it, which I did. Eventually the Lindens removed it for other reasons, not my criticism, but it's always threatening to appear again. The Lindens should put full-time, paid, benefited staff on the problem of newbie-greeting and stop this half assery.
This meandering post is about a figure in SL history who promoted the socialist sim, worked for the e-bay guy, and then became a lefty Dem operative. The point is not to make very much of this, like you can't make very much about the former Linden now with Tor, who told me "mathematics makes the state obsolete" featured in my book on Edward Snowden, or very much can be made of another former Linden who went on to form a leading organization to promote proportional voting which is a socialist gimmick to put themselves in power which we actually have now in NYC, with disastrous results, because not very many people showed up to an election where it was rushed on to the ballot. The former CTO of Linden Lab, Cory Ondrejka, is now Facebook's director of its mobile programmers where FB's virtual world will spread.
SL AS RL PROTOTYPER?
I want to try to explain the thesis of my book. It's not that things are prototyped in SL, or first appear in SL, or that the Lab conducts an experiment in SL, and then it spreads to RL with a causal relationship -- that would be a silly conspiracy with little proof, whatever the optics. No, it's more about the fact that in SL, you could see a concentrated form of the methods of Snowden or EFF or the Russians that would later spread to RL and ruin elections. It's not a lock-step causal relationship. It's not serial processing, but maybe at best parallel processing. The point about SL is merely to see how prototypes play out in hothouses. What happens later with this "enhanced" virus as it spreads to RL culture and politics and economics has its own dynamics which were more about the Internet in general, of which LL is only a little petri dish subset.
SAMEOLDSAMEOLDBERG AND FRIESWITHTHAT
So back to Frieswiththat, so you see the context.
And if you don't want to hear all this from me, here it is in their own words -- see the comments.
One thing that happened is that Haney Linden, as he was called, no need to stalk him in RL now, who administered the free sim giveaway to Linden pals, and showed up in various posts like this one when he left SL but without any statement. So this thread indicates that apparently because either he ran the Governor Linden it disappeared, or his account disappeared, and he became one of the Missing Lindens, whose bodies we used to search for after they were thrown out of helicopters in the Sea of Omidyaar, named for an early investor in SL, yes, the e-bay guy. But where he fetched up at was an organization run by Omidyaar because that's how he even got his Linden job in the first place.
SAVE DARFUR AND SAVE HANEY'S JOB
Pierre used to have an alt inworld who would come in and grace various favoured projects with his presence, some of which overlapped with some of the groups whose meetings attended or who espoused causes I actually worked on in RL, like the popular but failed "Save Darfur" -- a now-forgotten cause amidst the hideous slaughter in South Sudan and elsewhere which at one time adorned every bus shelter in NYC as it gave a way for wealthy white socialites and wayward liberals who couldn't backpack around Nepal anymore when Dad's trust fund ran out to oppose Arabic Islamist fundamentalist and terror without seeming to do so. The Darfurians were animists. The Janjaweed horsemen who slaughtered particularly women and children and poisoned wells and used rape as a tool of war, were Arabic warlords operating with the connivance of Al-Bashir, the genocidaire head of Sudan and target of a warrant from the International Criminal Court , although that part wasn't really emphasized, as the "Save" approach was thought to be "better". It didn't work. And not for the reasons the lefty Slate claims, either, because it's not merely about China's veto and protection of Sudan's criminal leadership (for reasons of oil extraction); let's not forget who sold the helicopters to Africa at the UN -- Russia. And as we can see from even the latest BBC expose of Wagner, that's not all they did in Africa.
FACTS ON THE GROUND
Their helicopters were so shoddy -- having engines under the front seats , instruction manuals in a language no one could read, and other issues - that while NGOs in their comfy suites in NYC and DC demanded in exasperation that Russia should supply scarce-helicopters to the UN mission in Sudan to help save lives, UN personnel and relief NGOs on the scene really, really didn't like going up in them because when you crashed, there was no chance of survival.
Meanwhile cynical Pakistani officials at the UN would tell us that the Darfurians got what was coming to them, as they dared to rebel. They should shut up. Etc. The UN is a terrible, terrible place to work in some ways; I covered it as an NGO note-taker in meetings with the Security Council ambassadors, who rotated monthly, for years. So I had a lot of very informed opinions about the Darfur scene, where a highly skilled ER physician and human rights monitor sent by the group I represented, who nearly died in Darfur (because sometimes a lack of water and illness can do that), had a lot of information that contradicted the rosy pictures issues to us in ECOSOC briefings; I used to go to OCHA meetings as they simply had more hard information -- they had to, as they had to actually protect personnel. So if there is a private film shown about how UN mission people are raped and injured and killed and how to avoid that, you begin to get the idea that Chapter 6 1/2, which was all the mandate the UN had there absent Security Council unanimity (they could not have armed soldiers to kill combatants who attacked them but had to be killed themselves), you begin to get the idea where the real problems are in the world. Slate mocks the US asking for three panaceas, but that's all you can do at the UN, and it's good to get at least that, or you have nothing. The Darfur emergency began under Bush 43, who appointed a wonderfully smart and funny guy named Richard Williamson, who has since died, as his envoy. He was white, and Republican, of course, which some people thought would mean he would "get nowhere." He was most famous and beloved at least by some liberal if not lefty NGOs for standing up to Cuba at the Human Rights Council in Geneva after one of their operatives pushed an Cuban activist in exile down the escalator stairs, injuring him.
Rich spent many, many hours holding the hands of NGO activists like me at the UN, who had not voted for his boss, George Bush, but whom he listened to politely before he explained very basic things about how you couldn't even get a meeting with these killers. I had to complain a lot to Rich often, based on reports from our team there on the ground, but he was professional and sent me a very nice letter and his book when he finished his term. I remember once button-holing a British ambassador who later headed up British intelligence and asking him why, if he got a meeting with the Sudanese official in charge of "humanitarian affairs," who was himself busy helping to kill those humans, why he couldn't make a citizen's arrest. He was startled.
Later Obama put in Scott Gration, who was white and former air force, but who actually spoke Swahili for those "constructive dialogue" sessions, but being from Obama, and with languages, didn't help to get them either. And frankly, even if that envoy had been an African American, it would not matter, because that's not what this is about. The current Biden nominee, John Godfrey, who has been too long in coming, is also white, but what's more important is his counter-terrorism background (people forget how Bin Ladn attacked embassies in Sudan and killed hundreds of people before he orchestrated 9/11).
I go into detail to set the scene for the reality of "Save Darfur" -- a complicated, wretched, nasty business which was more about an Arabic genocidaire, Al-Bashir, now deposed, and about Russia and China and other African heads of state, than it was about America, although plenty would believe that it was both responsible -- and could fix it, both of which are erroneous understandings of the world.
VIRTUAL CAMP DARFUR
To cut a very long story short, the virtual "Camp Darfur" build in SL, quietly boosted by Omidyaar, who gave a lot to this cause, including to my own group, was a big failure, actually forecasting the failure of the real-life movement. As often happens in SL, idealistic organizers forgot to put on autoreturn, sometimes because they believed there were no rogue viewers that could exploit this even if a group was set not all of whose members had build rights. So Woodbury types swooped down on it and made fun of it and behaved outrageously. For me, it was incongruous seeing a build made up of what was then available in SL, which was sort of LL Bean knock-offs and Boy Scout type campfires, so that this camp supposedly helping refugees looked like it was for sporty types in Maine with sturdy green tents, snow-proof sleeping backs, bright nylon jackets and wicking socks, not UN refugee camp tents, which aren't like a fun camping trip, issued to desperate, half-naked and injured people running for their lives from terrorists. You know? The clueless Camp Darfur organizers accepted the help of the Green Lantern kids in their green spandex, which isn't a whole lot different than Woodbury in their methods. It collapsed in the Linden sea without a trace soon enough -- tier is expensive, and can't be justified on a sim no one visits.
Even New World Notes, run by court stenographer SHamlet, who used to be a paid blogger for LL and is still generally soft on them, was forced to turn in this somewhat edgy bit exposing Omidyaar's alt because it was already exposed-- and apologizing for not doing it sooner due to his years as the court blogger. I remember being invited to -- of all things! -- a banquet around Camp Darfur. It was so very, very like those receptions and dinners at the UN where people gather to eat and drink copiously in honour of the starving some place far away. At least the food in SL was fake. And somebody close to the project tipped me off to the Ketto identity, which I also didn't expose simply because I didn't think you should expose people's alts, it's not decent, and it has been done to me. I used to chat with Omidyaar in public threads on Twitter, and in world a few times but nothing really substantive.
So as I noted, he then created this network of NGOs which I joined, through the NGO I represented, reluctantly, because I felt it was a huge time suck. That is, if you are an NGO activist, with limited amount of time every day, commenting on NGO "lessons learned" and all that crap is really, really stupid. I noticed that Haney ran this club like he ran the community with his pals in SL.
SL HARASSER IN RL
This network exists no more, and likely you can't find the chat in the closed circle anyway, but what happened was that one of the forums assholes, I believe it was Taco Rubio, he of the "Upskirt Museum" (ugh) and other exploits thought I should be outed in this network as a critic in SL, and that much should be made between the contrast between my avatar and my RL self, which is silly. He attempted to bully me on those internal forums, where I made pointed criticism about how NGOs were failing in Darfur, running counter to the Happy Little Trees that some SL forums regulars equivalents, those conniving Pollyannas, turn out about Bellisseria. Taco Rubio always had a strange obsession with stalking and harassing me; he infamously photobombed me at an SL meet-up in RL. He was a really good example of the griefers who don't want SL to be used for RL things ostensibly because of wanting more "freedom," but ends up making the online world oppressive due to his antics. As I personall translate Dostoyevsky's saying, "Without God, anything goes." And our beloved Lindens, who aren't really that different today on this point, gave him only a slight rap on the wrist because he was "creative" and supposedly understood he had "made a mistake" ("Gee, Mrs. Cleaver, that's a lovely dress you're wearing.)
(As an aside, I have to point out that the Lindens didn't really care about Upskirt Museum's predations but thought it was kind of cool, and while today, after #MeToo, they may be forced to behave a little better, not really, as they'd rather take away poor women's livelihood from gatchas, that question all these creepy Capture Roleplay rape machines all over town, which no doubt they think involves "consenting adults," although gatcha does too, you know? Rape RP may be simulated, and therefore there are legions of techies and Cosmic Engineers and Rationalists who will tell you to leave it alone, it's a cartoon (that was Rubio's line), I think simulated crime should be banned. I think you can't always be sure of the consent involved. And I think you shouldn't promote a society that enslaves and rapes people. I think likely you will not see this in whatever Metaverse Microsoft or Facebook come up with.)
BTW it's likely Taco Rubio who is responsible for these really atrocious and libelous portrayal of me on "Rational Wiki," copy and pasted by many a griefer and forums maven, which I should take the time to refute.
Although this SL oldbie FIC stalker's own affiliation to any NGO wasn't clear (one of the problems with the network), when I tried to turn in some rather pointed criticism of the whole Save Darfur thing based on my RL experience and the reality on the ground, he got to squash me. BTW, Taco may deny this. And I could be wrong that it was he invading that Omidyaar thing. It could have been another of the same type in his group or also enjoying favour. These people are elaborate tricksters and liars endlessly gaslighting the public, so that when you AR them for cause -- like deliberately buying land on a sim where you own most of the land, harassing you endlessly flying around in blackface, spewing particles and forcing tenants to move out, blowing up things, and the Lindens finally act and seize their land after literally months of this, they will portray a remark of yours that may have been more like "See, persistence in ARing these creeps does pay off, and you can get the job done" -- the rightful job of freeing civil society of its enemies -- as "See what I can get done when I want to," as if I have now joined the dark side and have the Lindens wrapped around my little finger -- as they actually do.
So, with Omidyar...You have to picture this network, filled not with really mainstream NGOs, but sort of exotic Better World types, and some hippie socialists and dippy liberals with funding that would have been the envy of a group really going to Darfur and trying to help. You have all these forums mavens who insist on everyone being as sunny and positive as BJoyful, but without BJoyful's intelligence and willingness to hear criticism. Not a good mix. I bailed from that network group which wasn't worth engaging with and it died of its own weight anyway. Eventually Pierre fell away from SL and from over-fed and ineffective popular movements like Save Darfur although he still kept funding NGOs doing good work at home and abroad. I haven't talked to him in years. That Linden, who was the Patch persona of that era as community manager, was community manager at the NGO network as well and stood by in silence while I was harassed on that forums by a SL asshole, and did nothing, no doubt so that he wouldn't have to a) stand up to the FIC in RL b) take any action at all, which was not his nature. And then he moved on, and now serves as one of those progressive Democratic Party operatives who I think should just go with Bernie into a Socialist Party, or Democratic Socialist Party, and see how many people show up, instead of constantly invading and harassing the more mainstream Democratic Party.
So why did I go on and on and on about all this. Because SL is a place where RL things are prototyped -- and this is one story about how that happened. And that's why it matters. And that's why you have to resist it when it takes the form of platform favouritism and tilting the playing field especially when the projects fail badly, and when bad ideologies seek not just freedom on a sim, but support from the company and help in spreading.
If you don't want to hear from me about this history, read Dalton Sideways, who explains that Neufreistadt is merely the project Neualtenberg renamed.
FAMOUS SL SOCIALISTS
Any minute now, Gwen, who seems to have no more time for SL any more, or some former or current CDS operative will be along to "set the record straight" here or on the SL forums. I could pointedly asked what happened to Ashcroft Burnham. I still have his coat rack. Or the beloved Kendra Bancroft, whose sturdy Bankcroftstocks I still have. She was famous in RL and died in RL.
Interestingly, Sister Nova, who is somehow who heckles me in the forums, then whines that she's been attacked if I say a perfectly normal phrase like "Let me try again," which yes, implies that either she doesn't understand, or deliberately pretends to because she has a different belief system. Sister Nova, who was once my tenant on another name, was in the socialist CDS and then was shown in a transcript of a meeting to say she was less active. Why? It doesn't matter.
I don't think many people realized that there were -- and in some respects still are -- some quite famous RL people in SL hiding behind alts, which is their right, but whose favour the Lindens sought and gave because they thought it would help boost their invention, which they really did believe would get millions of users and change the world. Philip used to claim as fact, not dream, that some day office towers in New York City would be empty because of the virtualization of life through Second Life and its descendants. He didn't realize that the buildings would empty out due to a pandemic, ok, but he was right about all this, you know? I found an interesting blogger who is even more critical of Philip than I was. I at least admired Philip as an engineer, a visionary, a creator, who remained enthusiastic and positive, even though I was publicly quoted in the NYT denouncing him for bringing big business in SL, because I thought it would hollow out the world, steal the best content creators and builders away to making IBM campuses and create and even more stratified economy with even more Linden favouritism. And I wasn't wrong about that. IBM left, and zillions of others, and here we all are now, selling our gatchas for 25L. I don't believe Philip overhyped the world. I think PR companies, which have fancier names now like Solutions Providers, did this, as they held the hands of Old Tech, fearful that it would miss this one like it missed the Internet. Journalists didn't do their homework. They never even read the Herald. I remember when I finally got CNET to cover my story at the Herald about sim crashing and Philip's announcement that he was calling in the FBI. Good for him!
Second Life had -- and still does -- a lot of really intensive and resourced enemies who would create the illusion -- the way Russia does about hackers holding up military and business sites with ransomware -- that this was just kids, not related to anything real like big business or big government anywhere.
I still wonder why. Urizenus Sklar used to explain it rather brilliantly I thought by saying that Woodbury and other 4chan type griefers did not want people to use the virtual world for anything real. They were and are Luddites. But stupider Luddites who didn't weave anything on their own looms. There is a whole coterie of scholars I call "griefer professors" like the Woodbury dean (who read his socialist papers at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, BTW) who celebrated griefing as edgy, and "transgressive" and reflective of the failure to include marginalized groups -- as if these Woodbury, including their dean, who war blackface in SL (!), giant Afros with particle spam of pictures of Bill Cosby and jello, were actually Black, and in fact not the lily white children of affluent parents, whose fathers either ignored them or had left the family.
MY POISONED SOUL
I once caught up with a famous SL griefer at a tech conference in San Diego, where he was underage for that conference, as he was in RL. I had this long interesting debate with Raph Koster, who is really brilliant and at that time was creating an interesting sandbox world that died, but it doesn't matter as now he is making something else. This large, overweight bespectled boy, sat wistfully on the edges of our table in a restaurant where a group of us, some in SL, some in this Metaverse professors' business, some from places that worked with Unity, etc. were conversing with Raph. Raph began explaining in copious detail every technical feature of his world that was going to meet my concerns about governance, explanations that flew over my head as a liberal arts major, and bit by bit the others crept away. This boy was left, but kept silent. Finally Raph left, and I asked this kid who he was, as he appeared to be in SL, and he confessed he was a certain notorious griefer and hacker. I learned that he literally lived with his single mom, the "where's dad" question an open one, as it often is, and literally was in his basement, although he claimed he helped out with rent, apparently with some SL earnings from weapons sales or something. I asked him just one thing:
"Why?"
"Because the Internet poisoned my soul."
And here we are all, with legions of young fatherless men whose souls were poisoned running worlds and the Internet at large, or even young men who had fathers, like Aspberger's sufferer Mark Zuckerberg or the loathsome Anil Dash who used to threaten -- and make good on his threat -- to make sure certain people he didn't like, who said something on Twitter he felt was wrong, never got any jobs or VC cash in this town. It's amazing to me that this creep is now touted by the New Yorker, which seems heedless of his past doing things like showing up for his appointed position in the Obama White House in a goatse t-shirt. Ugh.
MAINLAND COMMUNITIES AND NORMALIZING BDSM
A seemingly innocuous recommendation like this is not what it seems coming from this character.
None of that commentary may make sense, but basically animats, who styles himself as a tech genius, is getting dressed down by people who, while also unpleasant characters, are simply more competent than he. This thread first makes it appear that RLV -- whose initials stand for Restrained Love Viewer because it is used to chain and enslave other individuals and make their avatars do things that normally you cannot make them do -- they have to do it themselves -- is merely just another third-party viewer with features that are merely just features, with no association to them for their use.
So that's how RT Kingsley can write this techie pablum:
RLV is a system that lets you control some of the things you can usually only do with your viewer from scripts. It lets you control your attachments and clothing layers and it also lets you control other things like what you can see, what you can say and hear, and where you can go.
To be sure, he admits then later:
RLV is often used to let other people control things like your clothes and to capture you (make you sit on an object without the option of standing up). To let this happen you need an RLV relay. This is a scripted device (sometimes a collar, sometimes a HUD, and sometimes something else entirely) that listens to broadcast chat commands and converts them to llOwnerSay commands that go to you viewer.
Although RLV is best known as a BDSM tool, it is enormously useful for automating a lot of the things you do with your viewer. Without an RLV relay it is entirely under your control, though you are vulnerable if you put on an attachment that has someone else's RLV scripts in it. If you find yourself in an RLV situation you're unhappy with, you can always log out, relog using a non-RLV viewer, and then remove any offending RLV attachments.
Sorry, but that's not something you let spread in SL by the excuse that you can merely "log off". I'm not for normalizing the BDSM lifestyle and methods and programmed restraint devices in the public square. Keep it in your bedroom and on your own sim. I don't care what people do in private; they don't get to enlist me in their brutal fantasy in the public space, however, not playing. It's wrong. BDSM apologists always claim they are all about consent. But they aren't really, as you can see from the horrid dom personalities on the forums and inworld who are constantly brutalizing and bullying others -- and say, subs can be worse than doms, as we all know.
Fortunately:
The Lindens haven't decided to add RLV to the default Linden made SL Viewer. They decided to provide a number of RLV types of control via an alternate method we call Experiences.
I think Experiences, which are merely glorified teleporters most of the time, are a different context and culture than BDSM and shouldn't be characterized as "RLV types of control" especially because they are limited actions like a teleport that work by consent, whereas once someone wit RLV in a BDSM relationship opts to use it in a consent I think questionable, every input then is a restraint and I don't think the ability to end it by logging off, like turning off the VCR to turn it on again, is a feature to proliferate.
animats' game here is to further normalize BDSM and Capture Roleplay by pretending that it's just nifty to cross sim seams, i.e. the difficulty of crossing a sim, that sometimes unseats you, is corrected by you using a third-party viewer that grabs and ports you like a BDSM sub. This is not merely about consent. It's about normalizing BDSM, again, by pretending that it's like Tang, a great by-product of the space program we should all drink for breakfast.
This thread is useful to show you that the people who tout RLV and are are some of the forum's worst nasties, like Love Zhaoying and are BDSM practitioners. Their harassment of critics or those who don't agree with them on the forums grows out of this lifestyle. It's curious to me to see Linda Kidd, who I didn't association with BDSM, and who was Carl Metropolitan's very silent and obedient partner for years on end (although I don't associate him with BDSM), is now aggressively harassing me on the forums and touting RLV. I have found in the past close friends who seemed normal for years in SL suddenly turn Gorean for inexplicable reasons or fall into the clutches of a BDSM dom who controls them in RL, too. I find it a really creepy and sad phenomenon and spouting about people's right to lifestyle choices is good as far as it goes, doesn't adequately solve the problem of the pernicious effect on society. Some of the people who are most Puritan about gatchas or any commerce in fact aren't Puritan when it comes to BDSM and practice it because it fits patriarchal culture quite comfortably, and manage to call you a prude if you find the culture wrongful. No, the European Court of Human Rights has not found that inflicting pain and damage on the human body if consent is involved not to be a crime. In general, US courts do not fall for the line about consent; see the case of the NXIM.
I have many tenants who are BDSM; I don't ban it on my sims because I believe in people's privacy and private choices. If someone has been in a BDSM relationship for 20 years, can you safely say they truly consent? Sure. But I have also seem people become very distressed in these relationships, flee one for another, become very broken. I recall a tenant who met a woman in SL who was divorced and living as a single mom with multiple children. Ultimately, they met in RL and he moved in with her and they were married and became a success story of SL. Then she met a dom in SL that seemed decidedly cultish, and fled her children and their new step-father. A case where a mother abandons her children is always one of profound distress for all and I have seem it in RL including among friends. It's not as common as men abandoning their wives and children including my own relatives. But it does happen and I cannot endorse it as a prescription for society under the women's liberation banner, sorry. You can advocate women's rights and increased empowerment without prescribing the normalization of abortion and the abandonment of children in the name of personal satisfaction.
And again, the practices aided and abetted in RLV under the guise of "lifestyle choice" are crimes, and are practiced in SL in variations hard and soft similar to NXIM. I don't believe virtuality means "anything goes" and I don't believe that the affect on the soul and mind of virtuality is innocuous. In fact, they are seriously damaging for some.
Yet we've had 150 pages of a thread mainly prudishly condemning gatchas, which are like gumball machines for most people, and anyone attempting to criticize BDSM would have forums lords porting in Lindens, some of whom are also BDSM practitioners, to defend their "lifestyle" and brand you as intolerant as a racist or sexist or anti-LGBTQ. That's how it works. That's why I'm not for letting it proliferate.
"Rabid Cheetah", one of the forums' most vicious little hall monitors, who can harass and ridicule people precisely because they never AR her -- at least, I never do, as I don't believe in ARing people merely for expressing their wrongful and mean-spirited opinions. So we're always in a skewed environment, where a creep like Rabid (what a name!) can whistle and get her friends to do a mass AR to their Lindens who then feel they "must act" and simply reflexively ban me or remove content. I can't expect Lindens to sit and read long threads. They're busy. So they have people they respect and listen to, and people they don't, and do not fairly adjudicate the forums. That's how it's pretty much always been, although I think it's interesting that when certain Lindens overstepped the bounds and wrongfully banned me, and engaged in conspiracy with certain FIC residents -- Pathfinder Linden comes to mine -- or who have some kind of longstanding grudge against me, which is one I often find from gay men and m2f men who loathe the idea that anyone can go in the opposite direction, because they are patriarchs and tyrants at heart -- and also suffer from a primordial fear that they may meet such a person who has misrepresented themselves in SL in a relationship and end up with a girl -- ick! Girls! Which is at once a puerile and very adult intolerant reaction, but what can you do, there it is, that is how they are. That explains their animosity, and I've seen this repeat over and over again, so I don't need to prove it anymore.
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