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Wed 2007-10-17

Wild west vs Totalitarian regime

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— daniel @ 07:22

What was I saying the other day about being wary of SecondLife?

Cam and The Podcast Network got scammed over SL “real” estate.

But if SL is the Wild West, is Facebook a totalitarian regime? Evidently FB has a team of BOFHs who will apparently suspend your account for any number of reasons.

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