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Facebook Bans 20,000 Kids a Day
autospa writes "Although Facebook requires all users to be 13 or older, the social network bans 20,000 underage users a day, a spokeswoman said. 'There are people who lie. There are people who are under 13 [accessing Facebook],' Mozelle Thompson, Facebook's chief privacy adviser, told the The Telegraph."
When asked by the Australian parliamentary online safety committee how Facebook can detect those lying on age forms, Thompson replied, "It's not perfect." In fact, it's relatively easy. A standard online form asks a user if he or she is 13 or over, and the user can tell the truth or not. ComScore estimates about 3.6 million of kids under 12 use Facebook in the United States.
Uh, I don't understand this retarded article. How are they determining that users are under 13? The article says "In fact, it's relatively easy." but then goes on to talk about something entirely different. Of course the user can tell the truth or lie, but how is Facebook determining they lie? In their own words "It's not perfect" so what are they doing? Facial recognition to flag people that look young? Network of young friends? Use of improper grammar and slang in posts? I hate lame articles like this.
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You start at -1 because you're a fucking moron and a troll, and because you've recently taken to using dozens of sockpuppets in an attempt to make sure every single person here knows how fucking stupid you are. Something you apparently don't even try to hide anymore considering you posted this as cpu6502 and knew the intentions of a post by commodore64_love.
If people with a vendetta against you mod you down it will be picked up by the metamoderation system. If you find that you are consistently modded down, bad luck, it means that your contributions really are crap.
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I thought it said "Facebook bangs 20,000 kids a day", which is probably criminal.
Unless you're an Italian PM