Tuesday 5 April 2011

TOS

Linden labs TOS are of course something we all need to adhere to and noone seems to know this better then Forceme Silverspar. Forceme has taken time and sems to have learnt them inside out, back to front, and upside down.
Bella wonders how many reports Forceme has submitted in her years in sl??

Now TOS are of course important, they protect users, they protect Linden Labs and they help us live our second lives safely but it seems to me that Forceme exploits the TOS for her own personal attacks. Anyone upsetting her needs to make 100% sure they are inside Lindens TOS because she will dig and dig until she finds a valid reason to send a report. Bella wonders once again if Forceme has to much time on her hands.

One of Lindens TOS is hugely important to this blog. Linden states you may not share private conversations, it is a violation of TOS to share ims without the express permission of all people involved. Fair enough, makes sense, anyone doing it knows that they are breaking TOS.

Now a little while ago disclaimers started appearing in profiles, they go a little something like this

  Disclaimer: Chat/IMs may be recorded & shared. This statement releases me from liability as per SL TOS.


A lot of people saw them and added to their own profiles, most not checking if this was a valid disclaimer or not, turns out it isnt. Oh well, what a pity, never mind. Do you think Forceme felt the same? Oh no she dedicated several blogs to the disclaimers and accused those of using them as being stupid, dim witted, etc etc and to add to that she very kindly placed her own disclaimer on her profile

If you have this in your profile or words that mean the same then you are one big DUMBO.  Do please understand that LL have no control over non LL servers. 
Disclaimer: Chat/IMs may be recorded & shared. This statement releases me from liability as per SL TOS.



Now then someone who is as fond of TOS as Forceme, someone who dislikes ims being shared, who has I am sure probably hit the million reports mark would respect peoples privacy, or so you would think. Guess what - you would be wrong. It is not violating any TOS to post information outside of Second life and Forceme exploits this fact to its maximum potential, she may not share notecards with logs of ims in world, because that would be wrong, an invasion of privacy etc etc but she is quite happy to post them all over her blog, she is quite happy to slander, to use snippets of conversations she has in world to make any point she wishes in her blog, and this isnt just a one off, this isnt one conversation with one person, if you scroll through her blog this is hundreds of conversations, hundreds of posts. Of course she isnt breaking any rules but..........

                                                     Bella questions - double standard much????

1 comment:

  1. Just a side note to the fact that notes or IMs posted outside of second life is not covered by the TOS however it is covered by laws in the US stating that you can not quote or reproduce any personal statements with out written approval given by the person being quoted.
    This applies to private citizens and not public figures only.
    Just my well informed information....

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