"First and foremost, Regions, groups, and event or classified ad listings that employ search tags plainly suggestive of adult behavior or content will require the respective Adult designation, and not be viewable to Residents who are not account verified."
Linden Labs
If Gor is classified as 'Adult' then it will be invisible to all but verified users .. importantly they are banning anyone advertising ar mentioning Gor outside Gor .
The problem with this is as I see it is why would you bother getting verified if you came into SL for a look and found a sanitised wilderness populated by club goers and shoppers. So sadly I think excluding alts and people who can't or won't bother getting verified the population of Gor will go down to a level that couldn't keep any market going for long.
Markets sell most of their goods to new people and to existing players equipping alts; the very portion of the population hit the most by these new rules.
Interesting thought .. If I called the hub my 'home' and kept it private ( group only ) ..could they stop me .. Even if I have 1500 friends .. I'll find out .. maybe.. but no market allowed.
"Will you store my personal information? Will it be kept private?
Absolutely no personal information that is supplied for age verification is stored or otherwise retained by Linden Lab or its verification partner Aristotle-Integrity. We keep only an indicator that tells us whether there was a positive match for the information you have provided.
Thus, this information will be used only for the purpose of verifying that a Resident is an adult, and will not be transferred or retained unless that is required by law, i.e., pursuant to a law enforcement investigation and proper legal process."
Linden Labs
???? so ..you won't be keeping any info but if asked you'll give the information you don't have to the Law ?? ... riiiight..
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maybe its time we sent a strong message that we adults don't need protecting from content and don't much care for the Lindens big brother policies. I'm going to suggest a 24 hour long boycott of SL, show them what a nice clean empty grid it will be. Lets pick a date , start the revolution. Spread the word!!
I believe this was bound to happen, public awarenes being as it is.It will affect SL severely,a drop in traffic is quite probable. Sports and sex sell. LL management knows the consequences. This is not a question of traffic for LL. This is about the survival of SL under governmental and public scrutiny and not only about violent or sexual content. Tax issues, payments of customs and money laundering are to be adressed as well. The US authorities won't tolerate any bypassing of their law: Even Switzerland is now threatened with international economic bans if they do not lift the secret of their bank accounts. A boycott will not change the constraints put on LL.But I agree Erick, we have a choice: If our privacy is invaded, we can switch SL off. Lets read a book for a change!
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