I'm one of those dangerously liberal European types. I don't have any issues with protecting under-18's (in fact our laws about protecting under-18's in education are stricter than the USA's and I whole-heartedly support them) but, once they reach adulthood, there's a limit to how much you can reasonably protect them. If they can marry, should we really stop them seeing naked bodies if they really want to? I'm not thinking in class here, but at home or online or wherever. Other teachers disagree with me on that - said I was a dangerously libeal European, didn't I?
What has raised the teachers' ire on the SLED list is a facile article commenting that SL is simply and solely a means for exposing teens to "seedy side of life" with no redeeming features. There's no mention of a separate teen grid. There's no mention of the use of private islands and keeping users, adult or teen, protected that way. There's absolutely no comparison to content on the internet. There is an implication that this is all deliberate and the "dirty bits" are hidden to lure the kiddies in and trap them.
