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Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan

Posted by Soulskill on from the i'm-like-totally-18 dept.

Facebook has reached an agreement with the attorneys general of 49 states and the District of Columbia to develop and enhance controls to protect minors from inappropriate content. This follows a similar commitment from MySpace several months ago. The lone holdout in each case was Texas. News.com notes: "In the deal, the social network has agreed to develop age verification technology, send warning messages when an under-18 user may be giving personal information to an unknown adult, restrict the ability for people to change their ages on the site, and keep abreast of inappropriate content and harassment on the site. While the agreement is with U.S. state authorities, Kelly said that the tools deployed will apply to Facebook's international users as well. More than half of the site's 70 million users are outside the U.S."

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  1. Go texas! by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The state that invented the phrase 'shotgun Dad' in supported low regulation and combined with heavily armed, psychotic parenting.

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  2. Re:attorneys make the law? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    For a good estimate of the numbers in the USA that stoop to this level, check the percentage of people who still praise Bush's job performance. Scary, isn't it? Interesting you bring that up. Sex ed classes in US highschools skip controversial issues like birth-control and abortion. Similarly, evolution is often debated against creationism. US mainstream has just caught up with environmental issues whereas India and Africa brought up conservation of natural resources in primary classrooms as early as 20 years go. Largest amount of nukes, heaviest consumption of oil, maximum average intake of resources and poor education system upto undergrad level. Scary isn't it? And who is to blame, the voters or the politicians? Maybe its capitalism. Tangible Surplus and Knowledge Deficit.
  3. Re:For God's sake by Duradin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You were whining that you didn't have enough time to police your brood's internet use. You want to inconvenience other people (and at someone else's expense) to make your life easier.

    If they weren't on the net, what would they be doing? Wouldn't (or shouldn't) you be supervising those activities as well? How does the internet make your situation special enough to warrant outside intervention.

    And yes, I am suggesting that parents (and especially prospective parents, as it isn't to late to easily rectify the situation) plan ahead for the future. Kids cost time and money. You need both to effectively raise them without being a drain on the rest of society. If you don't have the time or the financial means to support whatever size brood you're aiming for, or if there is a good chance that your economic or temporal situation will change at some point before the kids can be independent, it is nothing short of complete and utter irresponsibility on seeing to their well-being if you are not prepared to meet the full cost of raising and supporting them.