I seriously can’t make this shit up (well, I could but that would be dangerously close to FAN FICTION).
The summary is: Second Life seems to be exciting the Netherlands’ Ban Hammer. While virtual child porn is already banned, virtual sex with virtual children is not (adult players acting through child-like avatars) but this is looking to change fast. A prosecutor with the real name Kitty Nooij will start bringing cases to the court to set precendence.
So uh, what’s the “Time until Kitty” when someone takes on that name or persona as a Second Life avatar? I see penii in the near future. Also, Dutch psychologists are calling Second Life “by definition a school for paedophiles”. Funny, I thought that was called Elementary School.
Maybe it’s my warped way of seeing things, but after reading this article I immediately thought of an alternate reality episode of “Saved By the Bell” meets “Doug” where they’re all in middle school, and some furry cereal-box-top character named Kitty comes to warn them of the dangers of the 2006-real-world version of Screech. If someone re-enacts this episode in Second Life, I want royalties.
Shit, so much for narrowly avoiding the Fan Fiction tag.
