Raph Koster, an sf writer and game developer, wrote some thoughts about the question, if avatars (game characters in computer games played by a human), have civil rights. He raises some theoretical problems with that, for example: Does the right of property, which the owner of the server has, count higher than a supposed right of existance of an avatar? Or freedom of speech: What if a game is designed to not having this right? Weird, but interesting. Via Boingboing

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