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American Apparel Store in SL Taken Hostage in Fight for Voting Rights

“Following the lack of any progress towards introducting citizens voting rights to Second Life the [Second Life Liberation Army] began in-world military operations.

The SLLA selected as its first target the American Apparel Store in SL. Volunteers from the SLLA have been posted to the store and are preventing SL residents from buying any goods from this vendor.

The SLLA has no complaint with American Apparel but is seeking to introduce voting rights to Second Life. We hope that American Apparel will join us in putting pressure on Linden Labs to do this. The SLLA can then stop our attacks against customers using their store.”

SLLA blog, August 11, 2006, via PSFK

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Neil Claxton said:
Isn't this terrorism? They're using terrorist tactics to achieve a goal that sounds benign "Citizens voting rights" Well next it will be the struggle we already see between the paying members who feel that they deserve preferential access to the grid during peak usage and the free members who don't or can't pay and would be denied access. This is the same old class struggle in a new world. Now a group allies with communists and anarchists want to give YOU voting rights, well not really, what the SLLA really wants is to set it self up as the liaison between LL and the users. This is nothing new. It is troubling though, as this group is actively anti-fascist, but feels that socialism doesn't have an equal or greater amount of blood on it's hands. Very troubling, as it looks like a new way for communists to attract new followers in cyber-space, if it were neo-nazis people would have a fit!

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