I am working on setting up a workable, enforceable justice system with SecondLife for dealing with a whole range of disputes, including contract issues, property disputes, IP disputes, and disputes about alleged griefing, and I am looking for volunteers (although, if the project is successful enough, some positions might well be remunerated in time) to help to manage it.

The system is, in essence, very simple: a database of avatar names on a remote server is established. That server is linked to scripted objects in world which, when placed on somebody's land, automatically eject from that land anybody whose name is on the database. The objects would be freely available, and people would be encouraged to put them on their land. The only way that a person's name could ever end up on the database (either temporarily or permanently) is by order of an in-world court, established for that very purpose.

Anybody who places one of the automatic-eject objects on her or his land would be entitled to vote in elections to a Parliament, which would have the power to pass legislation binding on the courts, within the parameters of a written constitution that could be changed in limited circumstances.

The sanction of having one's name placed on the database would the court's ultimate sanction, and would be used to back lesser sanctions, such as fines, as well as civil remedies, such as injunctions, compensation and restitution. The more people who place the objects on their land, the more substantial that the deterrent effect of the threat of being placed on the database becomes.

The courts would be funded at least partly by costs payable by the losing party in each case, and the overall government (legislature and a small executive to manage resources) partly by fines, and partly, perhaps, by subletting spare land on the estate on which the court and parliament buildings are placed, or by other means yet to be devised by those whom I am seeking to recruit here.

I already am in touch with a number of people interested in working on the technical side of the project. What I am particularly interested in is people to help to co-ordinate the project in terms of resource management and publicity (we are doing fairly well on the legal/constitutional side of recruitment). Those accomplished at organising finances, keeping accounts, publicising projects, and general project management would be very useful indeed. Anybody who would like to assist with what I hope will be a very exciting and important development in SecondLife justice, please send me a private message on the board or IM me in world.

This topic has been copied from this original topic on the Ellis Island section. Original responses are on that thread.

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