NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH HERE AND DON'T SAY FUCK EITHER, INFACT DONT SAY ANYTHING.Sl is full of colourful characters and interesting people. One person whose name will be familiar with a lot of people is that of Sarah Nerd. I’m sure most will be familiar with Sarah’s, Sarah Nerd buys land advertisements, that have been seem throughout sl for a long time. I don’t know Sarah as a friend, but I have had business dealings with her on a few occasions. I found her to be straight and more importantly she is a business woman who doesn’t talk shit.
It would be fair to say that Sarah Nerd had a thriving virtual real estate business in second life and rightly so, because she worked hard to keep it that way. What would it take to push her buttons, after all she is just human?
Sarah logged in one day not long ago, to the news that Linden Labs had decided to hike up the tier 67%. People were going nuts and screaming and yelling, but what about the people like Sarah Nerd who had devoted their second Lives to the land business. What about the people who didn’t own one or two Sims? What about the people who owned loads of land and when I say loads I mean loads?
The shock for Sarah and a lot of people like her must, have been devastating. While there was plenty of land to buy because everyone was selling Sims that they no longer wanted to pay extortionate tier prices for, no one was buying and no one wanted to pay rent increases either.
Sarah joined in a Concierge group Chat. The main topic of conversation was of course the huge rise in tiers and people were not happy and tempers where flaring. Sarah being a human and being annoyed and upset, typed four words in that group chat. Those four words, typed in a moment of rage where “
fuck you Linden Labs”.
Sarah typed out what every person who was affected by the tier rise thought that day. I’m sure she felt a bit better after it, albeit for a short while. Not long after this Sarah thought she had crashed and got a message on her screen saying she was being logged out of second life. I can imagine she thought the sim was crashing because it’s that same type of grey screen.
Yes, you think right. Sarah Nerd, land owner of a lot of land. Tier payer of a lot of tier, found when checking her email, that she was now the proud owner of a brand new shiny three day suspension.
She acquired this ban for verbal abuse and harassment. It really annoyed me to think of some of the things I have saw in my sl, especially as far as harassment is concerned and not a damn thing is done about some people.
Sarah Nerd didn’t verbally abuse of harass anyone. She vented her anger which is freedom of speech and expression. I will be keeping a close eye on the TOS just in case freedom of speech and expression get added on to it because if it does I am screwed.