When Will The Age Of Age Verification Begin?

dandellion Kimban is pondering a question that recently occurred to me, and Nicholaz Beresford, too:  "What Happened To The Age Verification?" Almost exactly a year ago (an epoch back, in metaverse time), the Lindens announced they were partnering with a company which would give landowners with Mature content the option to require visitors to verify they were indeed adults.  Maybe Ms. Kimban and Beresford and I missed the memo, but to my knowledge, nothing's been implemented or even announced since then.  Why?  She has a theory:

It seems that age verification is at the stage both Linden Lab and most of the residents were silently hoping for: status quo in the middle of nothing. Both sides know that nobody needs age verification, not even if it was not causing so much trouble.

Then again, it could be like Havok 4, or another feature long promised, then suddenly implemented when it was almost forgot.  What do you think?

Comments

[Ann Otoole]

Isn't going to work on a global basis and will be unfair overall. People will game the system easily anyway so it serves no purpose. Google serves as the number one purveyor of porn on the planet by way of directing people to porn and providing thumbnails yet Google was not required to use some fancy system that costs money and fails anyway. LL needed to do nothing more than all the other service providers do.

Besides, the parcel flagging griefing capability is on the way in so LL will have their hands full with that.

[Laetizia Coronet]

In the newer client versions, you'll find that there is mention of it. I don't exactly remember how, but that train is on the track and slowly crawling forward, so it seems.

Unfortunately.

[Cat Galileo]

The feature has quietly been turned on. Under "about land" there is now a selection to bar entry to people who are not age verified. I just set that option then walked my alt over, and got the message "you need to be age-verified to visit this parcel. Would you like to visit the Second Life website to verify your age?"

here's a screenshot:
http://vwlawlibrarians.wetpaint.com/page/age

[Cat Galileo]

p.s. I promptly turned it back off... I only noticed it had been added because I taught a "land management" unit in the workshop I"m leading this week.

[Ananda]

I was under the impression this was implemented on a voluntary basis a long time ago, and had already accomplished what LL needed - namely, to transfer liability for mature content from the company to the residents.

Since then the residents have simply not bothered to mark their parcels to block entry to other people, and why would they, until someone actually gets singled out for some sort of obscenity case? This, at least, has been my experience in traveling to corners of the grid both light and dark.

[cyn vandeverre]

Some people near me have turned it on, and it's annoying in its implementation. I was sailing a boat around, got the warning, and immediately was booted out of my boat and to the bottom of the ocean. No ability to stop the boat; it continued on without me, into the forbidden, yet apparently boundary-less, area.