Title: Peter Ludlow
URL:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ludlow/
Keywords: Sims Online, philosophy
Status: alpha
Peter Ludlow is a University of Michigan philosophy professor who was expelled from the Sims Online community in late 2003. Ludlow through his avatar Urizenus, set up a news site within Sims Online criticizing the ongoing social problems of the virtual community.
According to a news story Sims Online has fallen behind projected membership growth and apparently his expulsion was an effort by the company to improve the image of the site.
Follow up:
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The Alphaville Herald
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Raking muck in "The Sims Online": What happens when a virtual newspaper covering virtual events runs afoul of a real corporation?, by Farhad Manjoo, Salon, December 12, 2003.
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Banned Sims blogger bites back: Tossed onto his virtual bum by EA for exposing The Sims Online's seamier side, Peter Ludlow talks about real censorship and virtual vice. Interview inside.,
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Blood on the virtual carpet: tempers flare as 'editor' is thrown out of online town with 80,000 inhabitants, Andrew Gumbel, Independent, January 16, 2004. A report on the expulsion of Peter Ludlow from Sims Online.
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Freedom of Expression in Virtual Worlds, Slashdot discussion, January 18, 2004.
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Banned Sims Online Chronicler Bites Back, Slashdot discussion, December 18, 2003.
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John Suler, psychology professor at Rider University.
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James Grimmelmann, Yale Law School student.
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