Look, there's a difference between freedom of speech and being a jerk. In the case of this Second Life, it is most definitely a case of jerks being jerks. If you don't know, John Edwards recently had a HQ added to Second Life, and now some people have vandalized the place. It will be interesting to see if Linden Labs does anything to address this issue.

From the article:

According to a post on presidential candidate John Edwards’ official blog, the Democrat’s Second Life campaign headquarters was trashed, apparently by Republican gamers:

Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting “Bush ‘08″ tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ. They plastered the area with Marxist/Lenninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing obsenity, and a photoshopped picture of John in blackface, all the while harrassing visitors with right-wing nonsense and obsenity-laden abuse of Democrats in general and John in particular.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com