The Lindens and their "hidden posts" have gotten to be super annoying. This is an automatic system that apparently is triggered by the use of the word "rape," so that you can never criticize capture-roleplay rape sites in SL. Perhaps "suicide" triggers it. Or maybe "money-laundering" or "terrorismm". Perhaps some other word, you can't know. Thus it becomes impossible ever to condemn bad activities simulated in SL because you are falsely considered inciting them in RL, even in a thread where you are trying to explain this concern.
They don't tell you WHY they are hidden. They never un-hide these posts. If you ask about them, they don't answer. If you copy them and remove a few possible "trigger" words, sometimes it publishes and they never slap you for going around this idiotic system.
Accordingly, in answer to this post:
The person who founded Mt. Gox, the bitcoin capital, got her start in Second Life. She committed suicide in real life. Why do you think the Lindens put so much resources into fraud deterrence and control? Because while it seems pretty silly to use SL to launder money for, say, terrorism or even an influence op, it is still in some ways the perfect place for it. Remember how the buddies of the US Embassy staff person who played the E.V.E online game knew more than even the CIA about how the "police" (February 26th brigade) turned against the US Embassy in Benghazi?
Barret Brown, who assisted Anonymous in various crimes of theft of credit cards and such, was an SL griefer who would remind me of this fact when I blogged about his antics critically. There were other 4chan and related griefers who were part of a movement that brought us 8chan, which enabled the terrorism and killing of real people. I'd like to hope none of those script kiddies raining script particles of racist and sexist obscenities on my sims were among those who committed terrorism, but it's anonymous, right? You can't be sure.
Anonymous is still crazily celebrated by feminists for Steubenville (the case of the rape of a girl by the football team) yet few concede that it was Anonymous who outed her name and ruined the life of a coach with false claims, and that one of them went to jail and did hard time, and for good reason.
You're absolutely sure that there isn't a single participant of January 6 in Second Life? I know for a fact that several people who were at least present at the rally are in SL.
The blood/brain barrier of the Internet and real life was long ago crossed all over the world and even the actual blood/brain barrier has been crossed with sometimes disastrous results.
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