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Linden Lab will rate parts of Second Life adults only
Macworld — by Mikael Ricknäs , IDG-News-Service:Stockholm-Bureau Inhabitants of Second Life, the virtual world run by Linden Lab, will soon have new options to customize how they see the world. The first will be the ability to filter adult content, Linden Lab said on Wednesday. The base for the filtering is a new three-tiered rating system that will offer the ability to divide Second Life into Adult, Mature and PG regions. Search results will also be filtered according to the new ratings system. Adult-oriented content will be migrated from the Second Life mainland to a newly created continent. Details on how the migration will be managed and implemented is being finalized, and will be ...

Second Life Adds Filtering By PG, Mature, Adult Categories
The Mac Observer — Second Life Adds Filtering By PG, Mature, Adult Categories by Brad Cook on April 22nd, 2009 at 11:49 AM Linden La b on Wednesday announced the creation of PG, Mature, and Adult content categories that will allow all users, who are supposed to be 18 or older, to filter content accordingly. Company CEO Mark Kingdon said in a press release that the decision was driven by "preferences and community standards" that "vary tremendously across industries, countries, and cultures." As part of this change, Linden Lab has also implemented a new account verification system for allowing access to adult search results and regions, which will be migrated to a newly created continent. The ...