{"id":27,"date":"2008-03-12T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/12\/no-escape-from-reality\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T03:09:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T08:09:38","slug":"no-escape-from-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/12\/no-escape-from-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"No Escape from Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Second Life\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secondlife.com\">Second Life<\/a> is where our real life takes backstage, and a new and vibrant life of us takes over.  But apparently, it is not as easy to escape reality as it seems to be.  A recent <a title=\"child pornography controversy\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.reuters.com\/stories\/2008\/03\/11\/ageplay-sim-eyes-new-grid\/\">controversy over child pornography on Wonderland<\/a> (a Second Life region) shows how second life may not be too different from first life.  The key question to that controversy is whether what is considered wrong\/inappropriate should be allowed to exist in fantasy (a part of what second life is based on).  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