Napalm Riot

Last week, Representative Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) went on the warpath to launch a campaign to ask the FTC to issue a consumer alert about Second Life and ban the virtual world's "rape rooms" from school libraries. "Parents should be worried about one of the fastest growing websites on the planet, called Second Life," said Kirk in an interview last night with a local news channel. "It's the next level up from MySpace, a fully 3D interactive experience now totaling over 6 million people online."

Kirk then goes on to list some of the atrocities of Second Life, including human sacrifice, before pointing out that Second Life's terms of service allows adults in the kid areas and kids in the adult areas. When he asked Linden Lab for protection, "they responded by sending their $60,000-a-year, K Street lobbyist to tell me everything's okay."

Apparently the lobbyist couldn't help Kirk get most of his facts straight, either about the size of Second Life or its existing protections.

(Read on to see Linden Lab's response: http://www.virtualworldsn…8/05/represntative-k.html)