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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Re:Holding parents responsible

[Anonymous Coward]

If you smell pot in your living room, maybe it's a good time to put in a camera to see if your kid is using illegal drugs.

What about when kids smell pot in their living room, should they also set up cameras and use the footage to blackmail or shop their parents to the authorities?

Meanwhile there are kids being raised in crack houses because abortion is 'murder'. Get a grip!

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