A lot of user-created content is porn.
Seems like a truism, doesn’t it? Then again, a lot of professionally-created Internet content is porn too. It’d be interesting to see whether the percentage of user-contributed smut in user-built spaces is different from the percentage of professionally-contributed smut in open spaces like the Internet.
Anyway, what prompts this musing? Well, the combination of stuff like the recent LiveJournal PR disaster and subsequent backpedaling (gotta love a company announcement entitled “Well we really screwed this one up…”), and the big controversy over in the fanfic community over this company called FanLib that is trying to build a business model out of fan fiction.
And of course, the inevitable virtual world tie-in: the announcement on Linden Lab’s site that they are encouraging the reporting of unpalatable content, which has led to a predictable outrage among many residents.
