Comments on: News.com.au – Terrorists in SL

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By: Australian Federal Police to establish Second Life presence?

Australian Federal Police to establish Second Life presence? — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:10:12 +0000

[...] taking the whole story with a large grain of salt as it’s written by Natalie O’Brien, who has some serious bad form in reporting on Second Life. If the AFP do establish a presence, it’ll be interesting to see [...]

By: Hal Cazalet

Hal Cazalet — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:44:22 +0000

Unfortunately the inaccuracies have continued into the UK with this completely pointless post trying to sensationally link Islamic Jihads with SL.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/Blogs/showpost/fb1...

Oh dear....

By: Hal Cazalet

Hal Cazalet — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:44:22 +0000

Unfortunately the inaccuracies have continued into the UK with this completely pointless post trying to sensationally link Islamic Jihads with SL.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/Blogs/showpost/fb128a03-150a-4ad5-8801-3cbcf4dfd034/

Oh dear….

By: skribe Forti

skribe Forti — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:37:17 +0000

If she’s a senior writer maybe they should pension her off. She’s obviously past her prime.

By: skribe Forti

skribe Forti — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:37:17 +0000

If she’s a senior writer maybe they should pension her off. She’s obviously past her prime.

By: Apollo Case

Apollo Case — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:06:14 +0000

They have another version of the story where the writer admits later the problem at the ABC was a server error. The link on the Australian is: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,2...

Here's what the journo says at the start of that article:

"THE bomb hit the ABC's headquarters, destroying everything except one digital transmission tower. The force of the blast left Aunty's site a cratered mess."

Then she later admits:

"The ABC has discovered that its bomb was a computer server error that it was able to fix within a couple of hours."

Although even here she is still calling it a bomb.

At the end of the article it says:

Natalie O'Brien is a senior writer on The Australian.

HMMMMM.

By: Apollo Case

Apollo Case — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:06:14 +0000

Here’s what the journo says at the start of that article:

“THE bomb hit the ABC’s headquarters, destroying everything except one digital transmission tower. The force of the blast left Aunty’s site a cratered mess.”

Then she later admits:

“The ABC has discovered that its bomb was a computer server error that it was able to fix within a couple of hours.”

Although even here she is still calling it a bomb.

At the end of the article it says:

Natalie O’Brien is a senior writer on The Australian.

HMMMMM.

By: Rails

Rails — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:41:41 +0000

Having read the article by that imbicile reporter, one can only surmise that she is living in her own fantasy world.

Yes there are terrorists in SL, they are called griefers. Yes they are a pain, but they do not kill people in the real sense of the word.

This imbicile reporter needs to get out in the real world and experience real world events, such as having a loaded rifle pointed in your direction. Now that's scary.

By: Rails

Rails — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:41:41 +0000

Having read the article by that imbicile reporter, one can only surmise that she is living in her own fantasy world.

Yes there are terrorists in SL, they are called griefers. Yes they are a pain, but they do not kill people in the real sense of the word.

This imbicile reporter needs to get out in the real world and experience real world events, such as having a loaded rifle pointed in your direction. Now that’s scary.