Go Go Go, Anonymous!

The internet as a whole and the web most specifically has come increasingly under attack by governments worldwide. Anyone who cares about freedom of thought and expression (this means you, all you sexual libertines on Second Life and Warcraft and all the others!!!) had better start looking into how they can keep a screeching, electrified old corpse like Joe Lieberman from turning the net into just another shopping mall where dissent is limited to ineffectual protest against the State.

Free Julian Assange!

Second Life

I read not long ago a column by Tyler Brule in the Financial Times in which he mocked Second Life. Well. Maybe if your Real Life job is essentially what Second Life offers, you can afford to be snide. Tyler is a jet-setting publisher-cum style maven to international capital. I don't follow the gay scene in SL, but I'm sure there are any number of Tyler Brule clones there.

More recently, I read an article in the NY Times about how broke-ass chicks like me are able to have fun shopping for clothes in Second Life when they can hardly afford to buy new socks with their unemployment checks.

I thought of this because someone in SL approached me and asked me a lot of questions, saying he was new. It made me think of how SL is percieved by someone on the outside. He wanted to know where he could get 'killer threads' like mine without having to pay. Naturellement! Anyway, I sent him some landmarks for Freebie Malls, the equivalent of a pusher giving you free heroin. In no time this gentleman will be draining his Paypal account to buy helicopters and tanks to feed his roleplay habit. Or bondage gear to satisfy his other urges. Thanatos and Eros, the eternal idols...