WILL PARENTAL AGE-VERIFICATION KEEP TEENS SAFE ON NETWORKING SITES? WHY THE ANSWER IS NO

WILL PARENTAL AGE-VERIFICATION KEEP TEENS SAFE ON NETWORKING SITES? WHY THE
ANSWER IS NO <http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20070726.html>
(Anita Ramasastry) - A discussion of the proposal by a group of state
attorneys general -- in the wake of MySpace's revelation that its profiles
included those of a shocking 29,000 sex offenders -- to require sites like
MySpace to gain parental consent before hosting young people's profiles, and
to verify the parents' age and identity. Ramasastry discusses the proposal
against the backdrop of other relevant federal and state laws, and considers
the various ways that the verification requirements might be circumvented.
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