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The Alphaville presidential elections attracted national and even international media attention. National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation hosted a joint appearance of the two candidates, complete with an array of pundits pontificating about cyberpolitics and virtual economies. The best coverage came from the Alphaville Herald, the small town newspaper serving the needs ofthe virtual community. The Herald is run by Peter Ludlow, a professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of Michigan. In the game realm, Ludlow goes by the moniker Urizenus.
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P[E]ter Ludlow said he was only trying to expose the truth that Alphaville's authorities were all too happy to ignore. In his online newspaper, The Alphaville Herald, he reported on thieves and their scams. He documented what he said was a teenage prostitution ring. He criticized the city's leaders for not intervening to make it a better place.
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The situation blew up when the Alphaville Herald published what it claims is a transcript of an Internet chat session between Mr. President and mobster J.C. Soprano (the avatar of a player who presumably lives a law-abiding life in the real world). The chat suggested that the election process may have been compromised from the very beginning and that Mr. President may be the silent partner of the organized crime family. If this was play, then not everyone was playing by the same rules.
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