Vanity Fair Looks at Gitmo Protests in Second Life

After all the negative press Second Life has gotten in the mainstream media, it's nice to see a positive (or at least serious) take on the virtual world. Vanity Fair is taking a look at the Gone Gitmo project in Second Life, an effort to re-create the conditions of the Camp X-Ray detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. "Second Life residents can develop an almost umbilical attachment to their avatars, writes editorial associate Julian Sancton. "One visitor to Gone Gitmo felt so threatened by seeing her digital doppelgänger detained that she pulled out a virtual baseball bat and started taking swings at de la Peña’s avatar. I’m ashamed to say I had no such reaction, possibly because this was my first time on Second Life. But, novice that I was, I was nevertheless able to figure out how to crack my cell door open: I clicked on it." Also featured on the page is a video tour put  together by Bernhard Drax (Congrats, Bernhard): 

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This is not a story I expected to see here!

I thought this was an apolitical technological news reporting service not a part of the leftwing propaganda machine most thinking people ignore.

You need to forget the liberal whinning about Gitmo because the people found there or the worst of the worst of radical terrorist. People that would see you and every reader you have dead or enslaved!

Ask Nick Bergs Family how they feel about the low lifes in gitmo after they sawed off his head while he screamed for mercy.

No! sorry guys im not at all impressed with this story or the liberal writer, even if she is a darling of the NYTs or the eastern elites and a phd student in Corys class!

If you need something to report, lets talk about how Linden Labs is allowing large inflation of their membership numbers or the possibility that there is money laundering going on in world.

Now that would be story worth writing!