“No appeal, no parole…” That’s what Tina Turner said in the movie “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome” but this time Kin Keiko’s experiencing it in Second Life.
She’s a hair designer in SL, apparently has been around for two or three months, has been trying to make money in Second Life to go to school. Then, apparently because her brother had been banned before and she was using similar-to-her-brother account info, she was suddenly banned. No appeal. Just banned.
At first the Lindens took all the money she’d made, but now they’ve given it back. But she’s still banned.
This just points out a few things:
1.) The world just needs a damn good virtual driver’s license for the Internet (one with some pretty strong crypto, if you please).
2.) SL money is still pretty tenuous. I’m sure all the other content creators are swallowing their gum looking at this. The idea is you should be banned based on what you did, not on what your account seems like.
3.) People are contacting Dazzo Street to sign a virtual petition to ask that she be re-instated.
Let’s say for the sake of saying that Kin Keiko is not innocent of being a Ban-workaround account. She’s spent the past several months developing lovely hair, not griefing or causing trouble. Whatever debt to Second Life society needed to be paid, she’s paid it, I say.
So I hope that Linden Labs will decide to bring her back. I applaud their giving her the money she earned, but I think that it’s time for them to establish special circumstances to help substantiate identity and/or prove rehabilitation.
No appeal, no parole? That’s no way to run a society.
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