Private P.e.d.o Collection
Nurit Dardon
_Types of Information We Collect_ Information sent either one-to-one or within a limited group using our message, chat, post or similar functionality, where we are permitted by law to collect this information.
Translation: "We log everything you type into Second Life. Even 1-to-1 private messages. We are watching all the time."
6.3.(viii)
You understand and agree that we may report any and all such incidents -- and any and all of your corresponding personal information -- to any authorities we deem appropriate, whether or not it in and of itself violates the law of your (or any) jurisdiction.
Translation: "In addition to banning your account, we will chase you down in real life and make sure you suffer there too. Remember all those private chat logs we stored from earlier? Yeah, we will use those against you."
Is this a threat? Why yes. I do beleive it is a threat. I wholey respect and completley appreciate Linden's decision to remove someone permanently from their service. By all means, use whatever corporate decisions you deem necessary to ban a person grid-wide and lock out their entire account on the website. Such actions do not bother me an iota. That behavior wouldn't move a hair on my head. I'd forget about it 20 minutes later. However, to chase someone down in real life? No. I think that's different. I think that crosses a line.
In addition to the rules set forth in Sections 6.1 and 6.2 above, you agree that you will not:
(i) Use robots or other automated means to increase traffic to any Virtual Land;
(ii) Operate or profit from a "game of chance". For more information please see our Gambling Policy;
(iii) Operate or profit from a virtual "bank" In Second Life. For more information please see our Banking Policy;
(iv) Post, display or transmit any Content that is explicitly sexual, intensely violent or otherwise designated as Adult under our Maturity ratings, except as set forth in those ratings.
(v) Violate our Second Life Mainland Policies, each of which is incorporated into this Agreement;
(vi) Violate our Maturity Guidelines. A region designated General is not allowed to advertise or make available content or activity that is sexually explicit, violent, or depicts nudity;
(vii) If you are an adult, impersonate a minor for the purpose of interacting with a minor using the Service, or stalk, harass, or engage in any sexual, suggestive, lewd, lascivious, or otherwise inappropriate conduct with minors on the Service, or attempt to contact or meet with such minor outside the Service, including without limitation electronically or physically, if you have reason to know or Second Life concludes that you should have known you were interacting with a minor on the Service, or otherwise engage in any conduct that violates our Teen Safety Guidelines; or
(viii) Post, display or transmit any material, object or text that encourages, represents, or facilitates sexual "age play," i.e., using child-like avatars in a sexualized manner. This activity is grounds for immediate termination. You may review our full Age Play Policy here. You understand and agree that we may report any and all such incidents -- and any and all of your corresponding personal information -- to any authorities we deem appropriate, whether or not it in and of itself violates the law of your (or any) jurisdiction.
As for the second, anyone engaged in RL or virtual age play should be reported to the RL authorities IMO and I hope they chase them down and put them in jail too. If you aren't engaged in age play then you have nothing to worry about.
Age Play is a form of roleplaying in which an individual acts or treats another as if they were a different age. The practice can be regressive, in which the goal is to re-experience childhood, or sexual, recreating a sexual relationship with people of the pretend or true ages.
Sexual ageplay itself does not involve the sexual attraction to biologically underage people. Rather, when a consenting adult takes on the roleplaying mindset of a young person, it is motivated by re-experiencing emotional states and social interactions of one's youth, which also happen to be pleasurable in a sexual context to the participants.
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[* Reasoning being that i) hackers are actively breaking-in against the law (and tend to then destroy or steal as well, ii) scammers are setting traps to steal from the unwary against the law, iii) spammers are possibly not breaking any laws but are a pain in the arse, iv) trolls - when being gratuitously mean and nasty - are just mean and nasty people but can, as recent news attests, really hurt people.]
I highlighted your words that really stuck out. If you read what I bolded then read your last statement, yeah, if your partner in SL is calling you *Daddy* and dresses like a scool girl, I think it's walking a thin line. I know about D/s relationsships so please don't imply that calling you Daddy has something to do with that.
They are obliged to, by law, hand over all information to the authorities if a user commits a crime on SL. Whether that's financial fraud or sexual age-play or whatever. They HAVE to include a clause that allows them to have over information about you, otherwise they would not be allowed to legally continue operating. This is not new to this particular version of the TOS.
In the state where I live, a person in authority, for example a teacher, is obliged to report abuse if they become aware of it. However, I, as a Citizen am not obliged to. But you better damn well believe if I know a child is being abused I am going to report it.
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