Felis Darwin
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Here's a troubling addition. Section 6.1, which outlines prohibited content. The relevant addition is bolded:
6.1 You will not post or transmit prohibited Content, including any Content that is illegal, harassing or violates any person's rights.
You agree that you will not:
(i) Post, display, or transmit Content that violates any law or the rights of any third party, including without limitation Intellectual Property Rights. We reserve the right to request at any time proof of permissions in a form acceptable to us. Failure to provide such proof may lead to, among other things, removal of such Content from the Service;
(ii) Impersonate any person or entity without their consent, or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation, or if you are an adult, impersonate a minor for the purpose of interacting with a minor using the Service;
(iii) Stalk, harass, or engage in any sexual, suggestive, lewd, lascivious, or otherwise inappropriate conduct with minors on the Service;
(iv) Post, display, or transmit Content that is harmful, threatening or harassing, defamatory, libelous, false, inaccurate, misleading, or invades another person's privacy;
(v) Post, display, or transmit Content that is obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; or
(vi) Post, display or transmit any Content or conduct or host any activity that is sexually explicit, or intensely violent.
Any violation by you of the terms of this Section may result in immediate termination of your Accounts without any refund or other compensation.
Note that this section does not provide any exception for being in an Adult sim, nor does any other part of the document modify Section 6.1 as to where and when it applies. EDIT: No, not even Section 6.3. That section applies IN ADDITION to, not instead of or in modification of Section 6.1. As it is currently written, the updated Terms of Service makes pixel boom-boom an account-banning offense no matter where or when it happens.
In short, it looks like the Linden war on sexual activity is ramping up again.
So what's new in the TOS now?
in General Discussion Forum
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Yes, I've seen it. The problem is that Section 6.3 is a separate section which does not modify Section 6.1. In fact, the top of Section 6.3 even starts, "In addition to the rules set forth in Sections 6.1 and 6.2". In addition to, not in modification of.
Because of the wording both sections are in effect and do not modify each other. Thus, sexually explicit content is technically a bannable offense under the current TOS wording.