The Reality of Second Life’s Ageplay Problem
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A disturbing insight into why Linden Lab continues to allow children to be sexualized within Second Life.

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.

  • @FalEnglish
    6•4 months ago

    By the way, just because these are digital renderings does not mean that there is no harm. Seeing such content can still be harmful to past victims.

    This is true of literally everyone and any one. Anyone can be victimized by anything and be traumatized by seeing it. That’s not a reasonable argument to throw around accusations of child abuse.

    They specifically called it “child abuse content”, not “child abuse”. This seems perfectly valid, no?

    No, this is not valid. MAYBE if they added “fictional child abuse content” or something, but even that would be misleading. There’s no child, so it can’t be child abuse, and thus can’t be child abuse content.