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Introduction: What’s wrong with this hat? Posted: January 22, 2008 | Author: hilary | Filed under: blog | Tags: education , second life , virtual worlds | 8 Comments » The vendor containing this hat was recently deleted from Virtual Morocco by an employee of Linden Lab without any notification to me. Why? Because an anonymous person complained that it is “broadly offensive”. Virtual Morocco was created to be both a tourism promotion platform and a space for cultural exchange. It was built entirely by undergraduate students as an educational service-learning project. We give space in the Marrakesh Marketplace to several Moroccan artisans with virtual goods for sale. Our only requirements are that they keep everything appropriate to the sim’s theme and to the educational context of the space. The vendor selling the hat was owned by a college student (not from our institution) who specializes in items appropriate for the Morocco of the 1940s. This hat does appea
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2 Because an anonymous person complained that it is “broadly offensive”. [sent-4, score-0.073]
3 Virtual Morocco was created to be both a tourism promotion platform and a space for cultural exchange. [sent-5, score-0.683]
4 It was built entirely by undergraduate students as an educational service-learning project. [sent-6, score-0.457]
5 We give space in the Marrakesh Marketplace to several Moroccan artisans with virtual goods for sale. [sent-7, score-0.83]
6 Our only requirements are that they keep everything appropriate to the sim’s theme and to the educational context of the space. [sent-8, score-0.546]
7 The vendor selling the hat was owned by a college student (not from our institution) who specializes in items appropriate for the Morocco of the 1940s. [sent-9, score-1.0]
8 Even if it is, it is historically and thematically appropriate for Virtual Morocco. [sent-11, score-0.179]
9 Managing a space for cultural communication is not always an easy task. [sent-12, score-0.524]
10 When an incident occurs, I try to use it as a learning opportunity and prompt for discussion for my students and the members the our Virtual Moroccan community. [sent-14, score-0.449]
11 This incident has implications far beyond one college student and an ambiguously offensive hat. [sent-15, score-0.703]
12 How can we create an academic space – a space for the free exchange of ideas – if our content can be deleted arbitrarily, by a third party? [sent-16, score-1.016]
13 I’m posting this now because my support request has gone unanswered for several weeks. [sent-17, score-0.361]
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