Strong Content Warning: This article discusses child abuse and contains blurred explicit images.

Second Life users are in a frenzy over this article, published on Sunday, which details how a key member of parent company Linden Lab was participating in virtual sex content containing child avatars. Patch Linden, AKA Eric Nix, his husband, and several other high level members of Linden Lab staff are accused of enabling child abuse content to flourish in their privately owned virtual residences, ignoring explicit content involving virtual children, and creating a deeply toxic working environment at the company.

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    The whole article smells a lot… but other than the toxic environment, it also claims other problems:

    • Removing age controls
    • Grooming
    • IRL human trafficking

    If true, those are punishable pretty much everywhere.

    The part about removing ban lines from an invite-only explicit area, would also be quite suspicious.