January 7, 2007
The number of Second Life subscribers may be inflated, but there's no doubt that the game is attracting more politicians than any other MMO.Before he declared himself out of the 2008 presidential race, of course, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner (D) made a well-publicized appearance in the game.
In SL's latest political event, Rep. George Miller (D-CA) held a press conference in-game on Thursday.
As reported by the National Journal, Miller's appearance took place on a Second Life island containing a virtual representation of Capitol Hill. Miller answered questions about the so-called 100 Hour agenda of the new Democrat-controlled Congress.
Newly-annointed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's remarks were simulcast into Second Life's Capitol Hill. An SL user has posted a video of her fly-by tour of the area on YouTube. Second Life blogger Rik Riel offers his view of the event here.
Comments
What would make really interesting headlines is if a politician held a news conference in SL and announced they were preparing a "constitutionally bulletproof" video game regulation bill.
Now THAT would be funny. :)
nightwng2000
NW2K Software
Only one person we know would do that, and he'd be so busy finding things wrogn with Second Life, I mean actively seeking them out, that he'd never make it to the event.
Actually the ""SL User" who provided the Youtube footage was Joanne Colan of Rocketboom. The complete interview with Rep Miller can be viewed at http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/ .
Well that attack WAS directed at Anshe Chung, who's respectability as a SL broker is questionable at best. She's been banned once for using a severe land-buying exploit, caught red-handed at destroying the value of other owners' land, deleted other people's property on rented land without giving warnings, waged war against a good part of SL's furry community (including destroying property, land and attempting to destroy the original co-leaders' group), and so on..
She has quite a bit of enemies there.
Jeez, andn one of the /b/ tards on 4chan are THAT vindictive. They've tried raids, but never did outright deletions.
For some, it's a glorified cybersex game. For others, a Second Life.