Second Life Fan Archive “Lesbian Latex” Machinima Clip Pulled by Video Egg

Posted in Censorship, Second Life, Video by wayne.porter on November 23rd, 2006

This is an interesting case study…even the IDGA notices it.

This particular clip which was later removed by VideoEgg was fairly borderline in terms of what constitutes “sex” or obscene or offensive content thus, as curator it was left in the archives as it does depict “real life” from SL… However, it appears VideoEgg decided to pull the clip.

Now a second clip is up, the author has put in a video note about the situation erasing the original “lesbian latex clip”.

SLPixelPulse an online magazine made some interesting observations.

* From the Content portion of the ToS: “VideoEgg will use commercially reasonable efforts to block or remove offensive or inappropriate Content discovered by or reported to VideoEgg. However, VideoEgg cannot and will not review all Content, and you understand that by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that you find to be offensive.”
* From the Conduct portion: “You agree that you shall not, and you shall not permit others using your account, if any, to: (a) upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, … “

I’m not advocating smut for smut’s sake. But I am in fact wondering how many video-hosting sites consider avatar nookie a violation of usage terms and conditions. Yes, it may very well be a dumb question, but I still wonder. As for the Second Life Videos site, it seems to have no qualms about users uploading such footage. In fact, if you read the site description at the top of your browser (via Firefox, anyway), it states:

Perhaps the site was referring to Anne Machalinski, Aili McConnon and Christy Nicholson who spent the summer as embedded reporters in the three-dimensional virtual world of Second Life and naturally sex came up as a common question or pose balls for those who know…

See Video Interview-: Christy Nicholson Video.

Digg the author’s response on this borderline issue.