Comments on Second Life in China: Philip Linden on State Censorship of SLTypePad2007-11-21T21:36:23ZSLHamlethttps://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/11/philip-linden-o/comments/atom.xml/Troy McLuhan commented on 'Second Life in China: Philip Linden on State Censorship of SL'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef00e54f8b4dfb88332007-11-22T05:58:14Z2007-11-22T05:58:14ZTroy McLuhanhttp://nanoisland.wordpress.com/nanolands-challenge/Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Second Life already have a presence in China? Or maybe Anshe Chung Studios...<p>Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Second Life already have a presence in China? Or maybe Anshe Chung Studios is just a figment of our collective imagination?</p>
<p>Content filters are a nice idea in theory, but they don't work very well, even for text (think email spam). Making content filters for 3D objects or animations is even harder. What if a bunch of avatars contort their bodies to spell "Free Tibet" on the front lawn of a Chinese citizen?</p>
<p>It seems to me that the only way for China to be reasonably sure that their citizens are protected from outsiders (and their ideas) is for China to build a walled garden, accessible only to Chinese citizens. Maybe content from outside China could be approved on a case-by-case bases as with There.com.</p>