In-game free speech

From Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow:
The State of Play II conference on social issues in online gaming is underway, and Wired News has a report on a fascinating debate regarding free speech in gamespace:

Recently, in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game A Tale in the Desert, an uproar erupted after an in-game trader declared that he would not sell to women and then inquired whether one female character was for sale…

Wired …excerpt from: Boing BoingFoton: Please let that stupid fucking story from that stupid fucking game die!!! These are not pressing moral dilemmas. Some guy was a douchebag and the drama queen “victim” should have told him to “fuck off” and let that be the end of it.