Philip Rosedale, called by some as “God-King of Second Life” and by others as simply “Philip Linden”, is the subject of one of today’s Freakonomics blog posts.
Freakonomics doesn’t have much to say about him in four short paragraphs, basically reiterating all of the same points that most Second Life® users already know, but.. But! It does have a pretty good offer for those who have always wanted to ask him a question and actually get an answer back :
Rosedale has kindly agreed to answer questions from readers of this blog, so fire away.
I only recently began to follow Freakonomics, but when they gave the same opportunity for readers to question Bruce Schneier (probably not of interest to most SL’ers but of tremendous interest to me) I knew I was going to be hooked.
Hopefully we will see - as with the Bruce Schneier Q&A session - some very good questions being posed rather than the simple hate and sarcasm we typically encounter on the official Second Life® blog, and I’m looking forward to seeing the results.
Got a question you want answered by Philip? Click on the first link in this post.
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Just announced on the Official Second Life® Blog:
The Age Verification feature (now available in beta) will be included in our release candidate today. This means that estate and parcel owners can now voluntarily flag their land if it contains adult content, and Residents can choose to access these restricted parcels by verifying that they are, in fact, adults. Age Verification is the latest of a number of tools and services to help Residents control and manage their own Second Life® experiences.
I’m a little more concerned about the issue than Colin appears to be, but since Age Verification is for the time being voluntary, I don’t intend to verify my age. And I do tend to agree with Colin that it provides a little CYA for land owners as well as Linden Lab®.
My unease has more to do with the way that personal information is mishandled by third parties than any other factor, and is not specific to Second Life® I’ve simply seen too many instances of identity theft and personal information shopping to be comfortable with the idea. Anyone interested in verifying my age can spend 10 minutes talking to me, or quiz me about the software development industry if you are still unsure 
I’ve not heard KatanaBlade or any of the other C:SI devs display any strong opinions on the subject, so while I can’t say so for sure I don’t (at this point) believe any of the C:SI sims are going to be marked as Adult Only. For that matter, I’ve not heard about any other C:SI-themed sims owned by anyone else that are planning on requiring age verification, which should be encouraging to those that don’t choose to participate.
I’m very curious how this is going to play out, and honestly hope that it turns out to be as effective and as painless as Linden Labs seems to believe it will be.
[EDIT] Reading the comments on the SL™ blog, I’m surprised (and a little disappointed) in how many people are reporting a failure of the system and are unable to verify.
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