Users who insist on repeatedly Breaking Rules & Laws

Legal action will be taken against the discovered offenders, for Libel/Defamation.

(As well as legal action for numerous other committed offenses.)


Yes, we do work with law enforcement constantly, to battle sexual predators, as well as other illegal offenders of various types.

We work and directly communicate with numerous US Government agencies (U.S. Secret Service, Military & Law Enforcement Divisions, Child Protection Agencies).
As well as Government & Law Enforcement agencies of various other regions, namely Europe.

(We would not be that naive to make a false claim publicly here,
after just previously stating that we will be taking legal action.

So yes, everything stated here, is 100% accurate.)

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We advise that users please be sensible, and not engage in irresponsible and reckless behavior online.

Some are claiming that this is a "Battle for Child Protection", but we are hardly seeing much of that.

We have taken the time to answer our members on this matter, dozens of times.

Regardless of what is explained (including the complexities involved, and the sensitive nature of handling such issues),

regardless of the many improvements that have been made to Similar Worlds over the years, to further improve conditions for minors and other vulnerable groups,
(which has nothing to do with the staff being "shamed" into taking action, as some are claiming - there is simply a limit of resources, and a mountain of various requests/demands)

many seem much more intent on simply attacking and defaming our staff, and making a game of this issue,
rather than showing true care, concern and cooperation,
towards the actual protection of children and other vulnerable groups.

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Once again, we can confirm with all accuracy, that numerous ex-users of Similar Worlds, are currently incarcerated, for their very serious and illegal offenses.
Thanks to our hard work, and that of law enforcement and other involved agencies.

Many other user/offender cases are actively on-going.

We can also verify that there are ex-SW users who are actively spending the rest of their lives in jail (life sentence) (40+ years), deservedly so.


These claims about what we are or are not doing, to battle illegal activity,
claims of us "inviting & protecting predators" on this website,

are not only false, but incredibly immature and self-centered.
We would expect better, especially from some of the older users of this site.

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We have, for years, gone out our way, to give lot of 1-on-1 contact, attention and care to users and their concerns,
unlike how most businesses operate.

We try to be very lenient, allowing a lot of chances for users to redeem themselves after breaking rules and other wrongdoings.

It has become more and more apparent over time, that this was probably naive of us to do.

(We have seen by experience, why most companies refrain from allowing such cordiality,
and instead, stick very strictly to the terms & laws when dealing with users,
including taking swift and harsh action, when things go too far.)


So as mentioned,
legal action will be taken when certain lines are crossed, especially after we have allowed the offender(s) so much time and chances to refrain and change their behavior.

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1) Suspected Predators usually don't get Warnings on profile so that we don't tip off about those serious offenses, and we keep track of them while they are active on SW.

2) Suspected Predators are, instead, Reported to the Authorities.
We are officially registered with the #1 Child protection agency in the world, and have regular and constant communication with them and law enforcement in every major country.

3) We are often asked/required by the Authorities to preserve data for specific/most offenders, and this is why a lot of data (of these users) stays untouched on SW.

It is important to keep gathering live data about the offender, to facilitate the investigations.
If we simply suspend the user, things like the IP address, device, location and other factors can change and sabotage the police investigations.

4) Even though it seems "we do nothing" about them, internally we set a number of restrictions & limitations against them to prevent them from contacting minors privately/publicly, and a few other things which we can't disclose.



Some users claimed that: "it's false that admins don't set restrictions & limitations, because this offender could contact a minor!", based on these screenshots.

However:

1) This conversation is over 7 months old. Admins were already made aware of that conversation at the time, and handled the situation accordingly. (we can't disclose any details)

2) Even if restrictions/limitations were already in place, the Fake Minor profile that claimed to be 15yo had their profile's Age set to 21yo ("21 F").

3) Only at the very end of the conversation, the Fake Minor let the user know that she was 15yo.

No website's restrictions can "magically" know that the user was supposed to be 15yo, if the Age on profile is incorrect, and this Fake Minor has simply "lured/trapped" this user into a sexual conversation intentionally.



Regarding the user that people have been speaking about recently,
we have seen absolutely NO EVIDENCE of some of the claims that are being spread in the comments.

We looked at ALL the reports, searched a number of keywords in the messages, skimmed through the contents, and we simply can't find any evidence for this.

If you have evidence about the above claim, please send all the details you have to support@similarworlds.com and we will review with priority.


Regards,
-SW Staff