Call for Laws to Keep Kids off Sites Without Parental OK
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North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper wants to make it harder for youth to participate in sites like MySpace and FaceBook:
Cooper is pushing for a state law that would require children to receive parental permission before creating social networking profiles, and require the Web sites to verify the parents’ identity and age. For example, social networking sites would have to compare information provided by a parent with commercial databases. Sites could also force parents to submit credit cards or printed forms.
Futile. It doesn’t take a particularly bright child to fake that kind of stuff.
The only approach that makes sense - if the issue is protecting kids from sexual predators - is education. You can’t really do more than that.
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