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To take your arguments to a logical conclusion, children should be banned from the internet, not allowed near a chat room, not allowed on any site that is not owned and policed by Disney.

It seems that you are not actually worried so much about the children as much as the chance that they may falsely accuse someone else.

If you read the guidelines of the new policy, you will see that children under 16 will be allowed ONLY on supervised sims, and older children, 16+ are adults in almost every country but the US, and are considered adult enough to make their own decisions.

It is quite easy to get someone banned from SL by making false accusations of many types, the new rules do not make this any more likely in my view.

Children are merely people who have not learned as much as an adult yet, they are not a dangerous breed of animal that we have to be protected from.

Just a thought, you have the ability to save all chat and IMs, also, LL has a record of all chat and IMs, that can be used in an harrassment proceedings, if you are worried about the chat being in voice, then dont use it

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the MAJORITY ?

Where was the poll taken, there are presently aroung 56,000 people on line, and I have seen negative comments from maybe 20 or so people.

I may have missed some, so I will give the benefit of doubt and say maybe 10 times that number, that is 200, out of 56,000. Hardly a majority.

If you are worried about your own children being in SL, then it is up to you to supervise them.

If they have a computer and go online without supervision, there are MANY worse places to go than SL.

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I really do not see any problems with the way LL are doing this, it is basically exactly the same as it was , the 13 - 15 year olds will not be able to visit the main grid, and access to their grids will be limited to approved persons, therefore, EXACTLY the same as it was on the teen grid.

Remember that the teen grid was still a part of the main grid, it was just segregated by access limits.