The past year has seen many new efforts going virtual. There are virtual fund raisers (like the annual Relay for Life), charitable and social events, political and now war. The Gaza conflict is moving online, even invading virtual worlds. Fox News has a story up on the invasion of this war into social networks and virtual worlds:
Gaza Conflict Moves to Virtual World
A quote from the online article:
“Support groups have sprouted up on Facebook, drawing in thousands of members on both sides of the conflict. Protests erupted in “Second Life”’s virtual Israel, where demonstrators showed up to voice support for Hamas and the Palestinians.”
“In the virtual world “Second Life,” SL Israel saw protests from virtual pro-Palestinian activists when the violence in Gaza flared up.
“Lots of people yelling,” the founder of SL Israel, who goes by Beth Odets in the game, told Second Life blogger Wagner James Au. “They were going on and on with slurring obscenities about murderous Israeli forces, etc.”
Odets began ejecting the most offensive protesters from the area, she told Au.
“I had to be careful not to boot people who didn’t actually do anything wrong,” she said.”
This should not surprise anyone, as these technologies move closer to the mainstream and their populations increase, these sorts of movements are going to go to where the people are. Jump to the full article for all the details on these latest developments.
