Decius wrote:

A Georgia senator worried about the safety of young teenagers who log on to Internet social networking sites such as MySpace.com and FaceBook.com has proposed a bill that would force such companies to tighten up their access to minors.

The measure would make it illegal for the owner or operator of a social networking Web site to allow minors to create or maintain a Web page without parental permission. Senate Bill 59 also would force MySpace.com and FaceBook.com to allow parents or guardians to have access to their children’s Web pages at all times.

Oh great. Looks like this is going to be an interesting few months. Here is the bill.

When does this come up for vote?

I don't see how this could be enforced. Say it was passed, and now Memestreams has to comply. You have to now add some logic that checks if their DOB is < 18 years from today. If so, you now have fields for the parents? Contact #'s for the parents? Does this become like the old BBS days where you voice verified?

What's to stop A) False DOB B) False parental information? So the person you call back is their older sibling and they say, "Sure, go ahead."

Now how do you deliver the credentials to the parents? Do the parents have to login first to begin with?

This bill has no details whatsoever. What generally happens with these? Are these bills generally "function prototypes" for lack of a better word that are later fleshed out after adopted?

Very curious to see how this goes. I'm guessing it will be shot down without a second thought based on how poorly it is authored, but you never know.

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