Avatar Rights and Freedom of Speech.

One last post from me for today. There's been a lot of talk about avatar rights recently. We even had a seminar in the conference room recently on your right to the intellectual property of your identity online. There's also been a lot of talk about freedom of speech online. From a legal standpoint, the mods can ban whatever they want. It's a privately owned game. However, a few future sighted people are wondering about the issues of avatar rights in public virtual spaces. Also, how should one enforce freedom of speech online if it's desirable. This is a fairly interesting take on the issue of freedom of expression online. While not to a point, I mostly agree on the fact that if we're enforcing freedom of speech in online worlds, something similar to the fact that infringing another's rights and breaking the law is not covered. However, I think the person talking here is also forgetting the fact that the US is not the only group online and therefore, our constitution does not apply.

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