Erik Winton is the founder of digital world community Another Youniverse. He was questioned in regards to the disappearance of one of the users, Rachel McGarrett. Rachel was stalked on the cite through her avatar, a character she communicate through, which was revealed to be a sexualized 14-year-old. Erik explained how his site worked and cooperated with the police to help with a computer trace to track the stalker and abductor.
When the site was revealed to have had key details of the abductor's identity, the detectives insisted he manipulate his sites programming to show key details, specifically changing the time in the digital setting to one that didn't fit the time zone. Winton was hesitant since the users spent much of their time there and kept to their own schedules, but he turned night into day nevertheless, which helped with the abductor's capture and connections to other crimes. (SVU: "Avatar")