Bill on parental consent for MySpace advances:
North Carolina is slowly starting to turn into New Jersey as far as over-regulation is concerned.
RALEIGH – Children under 18 would have to get parental consent to join MySpace.com and other social networking Web sites under a bill approved today by a state Senate appropriations committee.
N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper has been pushing for the legislation, saying it would protect children from sexual predators who target victims online. Cooper is co-chairman of a group of 50 state attorneys general trying to negotiate with MySpace.com on the issue.
I have yet to hear not only how they plan on implementing this, but also how they plan on enforcing it. What do they propose happens to a child who gets on without parental permission? Will the child be prosecuted, or the parent? Will it result in jail time or fines? Will there be a special task force that will be in charge of making sure that all NC kids on MySpace have parental permission? Will this law discourage predators from trolling MySpace?
Again, I say this is nothing more than feel-good legislation preying on the fears of those that are not tech-savvy in order to gain re-election. None of it actually keeps our kids any safer.
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