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By: Shakazula

Shakazula — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:50:50 +0000

SIGN OFF FROM THE GAME AND GO BACK TOM REAL LIFE!!!
GO VOLUNTEER OR SOMETHING.
YOU SECOND LIFE ADDICTS ARE SCARY!

By: Damian Poirier

Damian Poirier — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:55:12 +0000

As anthonymark said [paraphrase] Follow the money.
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I think he’s right.
Other than that, is there any followup on establishing SL as a UN member?

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By: Nobody Fugazi

Nobody Fugazi — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:21:49 +0000

It’s a bit more complicated than falling under California’s legal jurisdiction. Due to the nature of the internet, and therefore SecondLife as it is represented and used… things are not so simple.

Catering for the lowest common denominator is fairly simple.

By: Gracie

Gracie — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:26:24 +0000

Having dealt with my fair share of governmental agencies before, the usual answer for anything they aren’t able to confirm something is, “I’m sorry, ma’am, but I can’t answer it.” Instead, the answer was, “we can’t find anything that points to any investigations having occurred into either Linden Labs or Second Life.”

By: Gwyneth Llewelyn

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:40:18 +0000

After a very quick informal (and possible wrong) survey with a handful of residents, it seems that it's not very likely that "phoning up the FBI and asking them for cases under investigation" might actually lead to any answers. By default they will answer "no" to all requests for further information.

However, if there is any investigation going on, there might be a very tiny chance that one might talk directly to the agent in California that is assigned to this task, and they might answer truthfully.

In any case, it seems that the probability of the FBI not answering is much higher than answering "yes, we are investigating". So I guess that we'll really never know the truth!

By: Gracie

Gracie — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:51:33 +0000

The original article that came out regarding an FBI investigation was become a Linden was quoted as having said they contacted the FBI and invited them in to investigate. Later, Robin (I believe it was) publicly stated that there was no investigation by the FBI or any other governmental agency. But by then, the original story had already caught on and nobody bothered to go and correct it. I belive Adam Reuters did print her quote saying no investigation occurred.

So all this time, everyone was thinking there was an investigation and Robin was just trying to cover it up. As it turns out, she was telling the truth.

By: Gwyneth Llewelyn

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:22:40 +0000

That’s very intriguing, Gracie So would that mean that the article in Reuters is fake?…

Hmm. This is getting more and more conspirational every minute

By: Gracie

Gracie — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:27:54 +0000

I called the FBI.
There was NO investigation into SL.
They were never here.

Call them yourself to back it up. I couldn’t even get a name from the guy, other than “Duty Agent.”