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According to this article the European Union considers opening an own presence in Second Life. They're saying it could happen in the future, but right now they don't have enough manpower to do it, so it's still in consideration to communicate via unusual mediums. Hm... could be starting a new trend, that nations are entering the space like many RW companies have already done it. We're going to see.

The Netzeitung runs an article today how the German criminal law is applicable to Second Life and not. To sum it up in short: if you're going to make pornography publicly available there, it is applicable; also child pornography falls under it. Sex between furries - is against it. A dutch attorney is already investigating in case of "child age play" as an act of child pornography. Well, some new insights, it sums it up to - better don't do anything evil and be sure with whom you're interacting.