posted by Damozel |
You'll have to work through this issue on your own because it's pretty much outside my range of experience: Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff?: Reach of Law Enforcement Is Tested When Online Fantasy Game Becomes Sordid [The Washington Post by Alan Sipress (2 June 2007).]
It's a strange, strange question which the article's title propounds, particularly when juxtaposed (as it is in The Washington Post) with an article relating to our increasing inability to control real crime. The right answer to the question seems to me to be "yes:" let the virtual people get themselves some virtual laws, virtual law enforcers, virtual courtrooms, and virtual justice, and leave the actual law enforcement people (and the attorney general, when he's feeling brighter) free to deal with real crime.
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