White Supremacist Groups Quietly Removed from Second Life Search; Second Life Being Second Life, Race-Based Fetish & Furry Groups Remain

Last week I noted the existence of white supremacist groups in Second Life, which popped up when searching for "White Pride" or other variations of those terms. As of at least last night, however, those terms  no longer return direct results. The most notorious of the groups reported on, "WhitePrideWorldwide", is nowhere to be found.

I've asked Linden Lab twice about this topic, and have received no reply. Then again, when I asked Linden Lab about the existence of Confederate Flags in the Second Life Marketplace, I also received no reply, but for whatever reason, Confederate items shortly disappeared from the Marketplace soon after.

I say there's no "direct results" related to white supremacy that I can find, because Second Life being Second Life, here's what you get when you search for, say, "white power" in SL...

Based on the descriptions, we're looking at one anti-white supremacy group, and several groups which use racial power dynamics for sexual fetish/roleplay purposes. Which is not exactly the same thing as white supremacy, at least not necessarily, but that's a whole other conversation for another time.

Speaking of which, there is, of course, a "white" furry group too, dubbed The White Pride. (See below.)

No idea at this writing where the White Pride stands in Second Life's furry fascist versus anti-fascist furry spectrum, however.

Comments

[Patchouli Woollahra]

"filtering based of keywords does not necessarily entrap all exponents of an ideology" - those are my "14 Words" on Linden Lab's attempts to stop these dark actors.

[AmyNevilly]

I don't see anything wrong with a "white pride" group. There's a rich tapestry of culture originating from northern europe that deserves to be celebrated.

I see nothing in this post about them being against any other race?

We have "black pride" and other groups all the time.

Seems like you're just a little bit of an internalized racist to me!

[Fred]

yeah I agree with Amy, the world has changed and there are other ideologies that pose a bigger and more relevenat threat.