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It’s bad enough having Fox News excoriate you for not staffing your HQ and calling on you to denounce virtual underage sex brothels, but now there is the problem of Republican griefers. According to an Edwards campaign worker, it was not pretty.
Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting “Bush ‘08″ tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ. They plastered the area with Marxist/Lenninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing obsenity, and a photoshopped picture of John in blackface, all the while harrassing visitors with right-wing nonsense and obsenity-laden abuse of Democrats in general and John in particular.
Story is here. The campaign worker says he filed an abuse report with Linden Lab. Um, sure, that’ll work.

The Journal of the Business Law Society at the University of Illinois College of Law is running a well documented article on Second Life’s Ginko corporation, which claims to have the equivalent of $475,000 US invested in it but which some have called a ponzi scheme, Meanwhile, Philip Linden has comparedGinko to the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. Finally, someone is calling out Philip on this outrageous attitude. From the JBLS:
More curious than people’s willingness to give their money to Ginko, is that Linden Lab does not seem to find anything worrisome about the venture. Linden Lab’s CEO and founder, Philip Rosedale, believes that banks can exist within the virtual world of Second Life without regulation. Rosedale likens banks like Ginko to Grameen Bank of Bangladesh which makes small unsecured loans to the very poor to help them start businesses and work their way out […]

Former residents claim Valentines day eviction massacre in “The Tropicana” sim, hire SL/RL lawyer to arbitrate island land dispute
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
I met one of a rare breed Saturday. Joshua Sao is a 5 month metaverse resident who owns “The Tropicana” island sim yet cannot recall when he bought his island, or the amount of his monthly tier payments to Linden Lab. It is also difficult for Mr. Sao to remember exactly how many residents he evicted - although eventually Mr. Sao told the Herald he evicted “2 or 3 tenants” for what he claims is non-payment of rent.
However, a group of 7 turfed-out ex-residents have hired SL/RL lawyer Monday Beam to represent them - and say that rent was not due until the 24th. After the Valentines day evictions, some former resident of “The Tropicana” sought help from Linden Lab suggesting that they had been defrauded. […]

by Jimbo Quality

[Editor’s Note: Jimbo’s investigation into the perpetrators of the attack described below is continuing. As is the Herald’s into how this guy get to write for our paper in the first place.
–Walker Spaight]
If you’re like me, you often find yourself camping a camping chair at a place like the LV Casino »in Baeogae«. It was almost 9:00pm SL time on a recent Saturday evening when I was doing just that, standing next to a camper’s chair, hoping to beat her back into it when the last of her active cycles ran out and the chair kicked her out like an extra ball in an old pinball machine. After all, good camp chairs are hard to find.
I’d been a little nervous that I wasn’t going to get a chair at all. But then, across the smoky casino floor I spotted her. She’d been there a while, her idle cycles […]