Strong Content Warning: This article discusses child abuse and contains blurred explicit images.
Second Life users are in a frenzy over this article, published on Sunday, which details how a key member of parent company Linden Lab was participating in virtual sex content containing child avatars. Patch Linden, AKA Eric Nix, his husband, and several other high level members of Linden Lab staff are accused of enabling child abuse content to flourish in their privately owned virtual residences, ignoring explicit content involving virtual children, and creating a deeply toxic working environment at the company.
While I don’t think any trauma survivors will run into any of this without seeking it out, SL’s official stance of “we will not tolerate any child-related sexual activities” is starkly contrasted by the behaviour the article mentions. Someone from Linden Lab knowing about this stuff definitely makes me question that Second Life actually enforces their rules.