Parents To Block Kids From Joining MySpace 337
Reservoir Hill writes "A New York Times blog notes that attorneys general of 49 states are announcing a partnership with MySpace to fight sexual predators on social networks by letting parents submit the e-mail addresses of their children, so the company can prevent anyone from using that address to set up a profile. MySpace will also set up a 'closed' section for users under age 18 so only their established online friends can visit their pages. MySpace also promises to hire a contractor to identify and delete pornographic images on the site. 'This set of principles is a landmark and milestone because it involves an acknowledgment of the importance of age and identity authentication,' said Connecticut attorney General Richard Blumenthal." Blumenthal also actually said "If we can put a man on the moon..."
Cool (Score:5, Funny)
Contractor paid to search for porn? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Blocking email addresses? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sign up for another address (Score:4, Funny)
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Next Up: theft of Myspace address DB (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sign up for another address (Score:5, Funny)
With an e-mail address like that they're going to be even more surprised to find out that their 12-year-old daughter is actually a lonely 40-year-old man.
This is a good thing. (Score:2, Funny)
Also this way, rather then imposing arbitrary restriction based on age, their is a built in opt out based on a child's actual readiness to dis-regard their parents tech ignorance.
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In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
And later, nerds who read news want to create a blacklist to block stupid politicians and law makers from being able to make new laws.
It could be possible at the ISP level (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe as a CEO of a major telecom I could charge an extra $5 a month to firewall sites.
Or I could just charge $5 a month more and have the kids still find free proxies to go around it.
In the meantime a simple fix in the
Re:Blocking email addresses? (Score:3, Funny)
Have some faith, blocking email addresses obviously worked for spam.
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There's no more time for that! The TV tells me that the internet is trying to fuck my children!
Re:This is arguably the stupidest thing ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cool (Score:5, Funny)
Why not submit your friends' email addresses? Friends don't let friends join myspace!
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(For the ZIP-code challenged, the Zip code is 12345)
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