Linden Lab is about to undo much of the progress of the last year with the rollout of its Adult continent. Forget the idea of putting adult content together in one place, which could be neat if it were only a part of a zoning plan.
The problem is the underlying intent to bring children and teenagers on the grid. The stated goal certainly is noble since LL wants to make activities such as learning easier by bringing both teachers and students together in classes.
However, the solution has catastrophic potential. The arrival of youngsters on the grid will cause a wide range of issues since Second Life is NOT a place where you can mix the young with the adults without messing it up.
This virtual world is one where adults can come together to create something new. They start businesses that are sometimes PG (a photo studio) but most target adults. Most users do NOT want to have to deal with teens and children walking around in their places as if SL was just a game. There are enough adults who do not have a clue about SL's purpose when they first log in and land on our plots, it will bring us down to the lowest common denominator if we bring in kids who can treat the virtual world (and us!) as if none of it is real or none of it really matters.
When teens and children will be here, all content outside the Adult continent will be PG. We will all have to conform... or start moving massively to a new continent. This is why having a teen grid was awesome. Non-adult users had their safe space without harming our activities.
All that Linden Lab had to do was launching some type of certification program for some adults to get access to the teen grid to handle activities such as teaching. But hey, why implement simple solutions when you can outrage everyone?
As I said before, incompetence has a new spelling and it starts with an L.
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