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Expelled: Woodbury's Second Life Silencing

Learning with e's

Occasionally this blog hosts guest posts. Most recently, the brick-and-mortar university Woodbury was booted off Second Life —thousands of students were affected—by the virtual world's moderators, a company called Linden Lab. Linden Lab has remained largely silent in the press, a silence that has infuriated many.

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The Web is Not Public.But maybe It Should be or maybe Not

Mark Oehlert

No freedom of press or religion. Second Life/Linden Lab is really just a Web-hosting company that lives in San Fran. Ever notice how these spaces mimic city squares or streets? here is the critical difference.they are not. No free speech applies here. No freedom to assemble. These are not public spaces.

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Random 3D Virtual World Statistics

Kapp Notes

From Blizzard Press Release. From Build-A-Bearville Shares Stats From Virtual World, Real Store Interactions Over 1,400 businesses, government organizations and agencies have used Second Life to hold meetings, conduct training and prototype new technologies as a solution hosted by Linden Lab since 2003.