A Linden Lab Time Capsule
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
The passage below is reminder of how far Linden Lab has gone from their original dream of being “bigger than the web”. Self-limiting decisions such as this “adult ghetto”, banning people for “unacceptable fantasies”, and in general, moving further and further from the concept of a common carrier, and turning into something more and more like AOL in 1995… a sandboxed playground for kids and people who can’t figure out how to use anything better.
Linden Lab wrote, in December 2006:
We could never write a set of rules that would work for all people all the time, nor could we enforce them across a population that is growing so rapidly. Instead, we believe that the best way to foster communication and expression is to put power into the hands of the people by giving you better tools for local control. And that’s what we’ve been doing for several months now. [...]
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