It seems that some residents of Second Life aren't happy with the commercialism that is coming to the online world. Slate has this news about the actions of those individuals in an effort to make the corporations feel unwelcome:
Terrorism has erupted in a huge, online fantasy world.
Membership in Second Life has soared from 100,000 to 2 million in a year. Freeloaders and corporations selling real stuff are coming in; imaginary elves are leaving. The company that runs the world says it needs corporate money to keep it growing and going. Some old-timers, angry at the changes, stratification, and limits on democracy, have formed the "Second Life Liberation Army" and are virtually shooting people and detonating bombs outside chain stores to generate real publicity. Liberation Army's spin: We're like the American revolutionaries.
Left-wing view: Everything started going to hell when the corporations came in. Right-wing view: Everything started going to hell when the terrorists came in. Human Nature's view: Everything started going to hell when the people came in.
If the long term residents want corporations to go away, I think that just continuing their normal behavior of dressing up like animals or children and having lots of cybersex with appropriate animations will eventually do the trick.
Article from Razorwire News
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