Where Politics And Video Games Collide

It's awful that the content-creating geek class can be bought out so easily by promises of mash-ups.

Erik's start is interesting, and no doubt well-intentioned, but he isn't providing any more universal human rights that Linden Lab, so the North Korean analogy is silly.

There is a lot of collectivism larded into Koster's and Bethke's "bills of rights" and unlike the U.S. Constitution, which is a model for certain, there isn't enough respect and foundation in individual rights.

One thing I think we can agree on, however, is that people like Matt Mihaly or Matthew here who natter on about how avatars are only pixels and aren't people blah blah should just go sit in the corner and keep talking on their plastic phones not hooked up to anything that real people are experiencing. Their avatars are extensions of themselves, they are their navigators in virtual worlds, and in those spaces, that want something at least approximating what they have in real life spaces.

Really, if all Erik gets right is a more fair, transparent, and humane punishment and ban system, he will already have gone a huge distance in democratizing games and making them more just, and that should be the focus.