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Painted into a corner?
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Jun 9th 2007 5:21PM Apologies, the link to the section of our forum didn't show up. The address is:
http://forums.neufreistadt.info/viewtopic.php?t=1089
Painted into a corner?
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Jun 9th 2007 5:19PM Crissa said: "Linden lab took action in the German case due to RL pedo pictures being uploaded, despite Robin's inferrences."
Myrrh asked: "..i've read this rumor in increasing circulation - do you have any substantiating evidence that this was the case?"
One of the German speakers in our community posted a description of the content of the Report Maintz programme here. With reference to Myrrh's question the key section is this:
"In the process of their research the reporters met an SL participant from Germany who gave them pornographic photos of real girls, which they also showed to Robin Harper. She said this was terrible, and these were not avatars but real children. She said everything possible would be done to find out who this person was and arrest him. The reporters also showed these photos to Peter Vogt, who said he would also do that to the best of his abilities. This person could receive a child pornography prison sentence of 3 months to 5 years."
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Jun 9th 2007 12:06PM Carolyn Saarinen made the following accusation against me in these comments: "he believes any sort of discrimination against BDSM is fine and he would very probably support it."
If you read the thread that Carolyn linked to, you'll find that I argue nothing of the sort. But I do resist the attempts of intolerant types like Carolyn who try to stifle debate and silence anyone critical of bdsm and the ideology some bdsm types espouse. It's vital for a free society that we are able to handle dissent, disagreement and discussion.
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Jun 9th 2007 6:39AM "The poem was not about Nazis and Jews." That's *exactly* what it was about! It was about the failure of people to act when groups were being victimised, when those groups were being rounded up and jailed and worse. To compare that with some supposed 'victimisation' of paedophile role players in SL is sick, obscene; an insult to the memory of millions of people who really suffered, out there in the real world where pain, slavery and genocide are felt by actual living, breathing human beings. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't feel utter revulsion at the misuse of this poem and what that represents. You would have to be dead inside not to be sickened.
Does the 'hounding' and 'victimisation' of paedophiles in the real world mean that "next it's the bdsm crowd, then the polyamorous, then the gays?" Does it hell as like! Paedophilia is legislated against for good reason - people with a sexual interest in children are a danger to them. Drawing the line there does not represent 'the thin end of the wedge' ending in concentration camps for anyone not in a monogamous heterosexual marriage. To suggest something like that is ridiculous and would be seen for the hyperbole that it is in the real world.
The Lindens have introduced a degree of ambiguity by their reference to what is 'broadly offensive' but the bdsm crowd et al have gone overboard in their hysterical overreaction to this. Do we really believe the Lindens intend to stop people from playing at Gor or bdsm on their own land, on private islands away from prying eyes? I doubt it, they don't have the resources to police such a ban for starters. But here's a tip - you don't help to build a coalition for the rights of sexual minorities by drawing some sick, spurious analogy between a firm stand against people playacting child rape and the Holocaust. That's disgusting, that's wrong and it should be condemned.
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Jun 9th 2007 4:40AM "First they came for...
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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came... First they came for the ageplayers, & I didn't speak up, cuz I wasn't ageplaying. Then they came for the rape roleplayers, & I didn't speak up, cuz I wasn't roleplaying. Then they came for the furries, & I didn't speak up, cuz I wasn't furry. Then they came for the Goreans, the combat players, the BDSMers, the necros, the vampires, the gangsters, & I didn't speak up... Then they came for me, & there was no one left to speak up for me."
This is nauseating, a parody of the poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller about the persecution of Jews, communists, trade unionists and others by the Nazis. Wikipedia has an entry on the various versions of the poem.
Really, your soul has to be utterly deadened by the nihilistic 'culture' of Second Life not to find this odious and utterly reprehensible. To compare the (long overdue) ban on ageplay i.e. simulating child rape with the suffering of people murdered by the Nazis is horrific. I can't conceive of a worse insult to the memory of those slaughtered in the Holocaust than this.
The instigators of this group should hang their heads in shame.
