Philosophical Voices in the Bungle Affair
As mentioned, the Mr. Bungle case provides a convenient point of departure.
The player guiding the Bungle character knew enough about MOO
programming to manipulate the text that players saw in a public
room, so that a female-presenting player and others in the room
would see her character being viciously raped. As Dibbell's
article reveals, the politics of the Bungle case at LambdaMOO
were complex, bringing out a spectrum of philosophies about
government of the MOO. But I want to emphasize four voices that
rang clearly amid the furor.
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