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MySpace Age Verification - for Parents

unlametheweak writes "North Carolina is thinking of the children by passing a law requiring parents to verify they are parents before letting their children onto social networking sites. Notwithstanding the whole concept of an Internet ID for people in general; children are now being tracked by cellular phones with GPS, spied upon with Parent Controls (MS Vista has built-in parental spyware), and also strategically placed Nanny Cams, keyboard loggers, etc. 'Few of the proposals we've seen so far seem like good ways to [protect children], but North Carolina's approach at least has the virtue of novelty--unlike most video game legislation, which relies on similar rhetoric but has been almost universally struck down by the courts, sometimes at great cost to the states.' Is the zoo-like Minority Report world in which children are growing up in today doing more harm than good? How will this affect a 14 year old, much less a 17 year old "child"?"

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  1. Please..... by Colourspace · · Score: 1, Funny

    Won't somebody think of the children?

  2. Obligatory Star Wars... by ReidMaynard · · Score: 3, Funny

    Luke, I am your father.

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    Political discussion for a new world

  3. Re:Oh come on... by svendsen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Choice 4 the kid finds on the internet how to disable the program you installed. Then sells the solution to others kids and (wait for it)...

    PROFIT

  4. Re:17 year olds are not children by antifoidulus · · Score: 3, Funny

    The first night they spend in prison after doing something incredibly stupid while drunk.

  5. Internet access on Tatooine by Nymz · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a good thing Luke's parents didn't let him have a MySpace page, otherwise his father might have found him with one Google search, and essentially ended the series right there.

  6. Re:2 Options by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    1) Loli
    2) JB
    3) Pedobear


    fix'd

  7. Re:Facebook what? by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see you have an onion on your belt, so I'll just get off your lawn now, sir...