Bill Restricting Minors From MySpace

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A Georgia senator has introduced a bill that would restrict minors from sites like MySPace and Facebook.

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.
 
Sigh. More pointless legislation that will not and cannot do anything by somebody who doesn't understand the nature of the internet. It just shifts the burden of somebody lying entirely on another entity.

Where is the legislation for parents to actually teach thier kids to be life-savvy, and for teens to actually be the slightest bit responsible for thier own actions? There is no way to definitively identify every person and keep teens that lie about thier age off of the sites.

It should never be the responsiblity of a web provider to be held liable for lack of even the most basic common sense.
 
If it passes...well just move out of Georgia.

And if the rest of the US is stupid enough to follow suit, move your server out of the US.

I am really sick of these stupid US laws covering for shitty parents.
 
Yeah good luck enforcing that one.

How about a bill instead to force parents to take responsibility for their children...
 
It's rediculous...it's in the same league as the whole videogame ban thing; it's not gonna happen. Myspace isn't a fucking porn site for goodness' sake. The site's purpose isn't to sell porn videos, it's free, and, some kid ending up in across the world because they conned their parents into buying them a plane ticket to meet some pedo in Israel is NOT myspace's fault.
 
why should we pass bills for a company to be responsible... now tax payers are paying for myspace's security...
 
The law is requiring parental consent and requiring that parents be able to access the thing..
That is a law that would empower/require the parents to do their job, not one that does the job for them.. Think :rolleyes:

Whether it is a practical or easily enforceable law or not is questionable however..
 
I live in Georgia and sadly enough I feel this is just a waste of time. I personally would have felt better if they spent that time and energy rounding up more illegal immigrants and shipping them off.

Or, better yet, doing something about any of the hundreds of more relevant problems plaguing the state.
 
Great idea but it will never go.

You have to be kidding...great idea? Holy hell, do we need a law for freaking everything? Let's make it legal to get out of bed from 630am to 730am...cause you know, that right isn't guaranteed right now.
 
This law is stupid. How do you prove someone is 18? People lie in their profiles all the time, for a variety reasons. Is there any doubt that a 14 y-o kid is going to claim he/she is 18+ if that's what it takes to get on Myspace? I think not.
 
You have to be kidding...great idea? Holy hell, do we need a law for freaking everything? Let's make it legal to get out of bed from 630am to 730am...cause you know, that right isn't guaranteed right now.

We don't need that law. We need a law that allows everyone to sleep until 10:00 am :p
 
The purpose of a democratic government is to protect the rights of the people, by the will of the people. No rights are being protected by a bill such as this. This is a usurpation of authority never granted.
 
This law is stupid. How do you prove someone is 18? People lie in their profiles all the time, for a variety reasons. Is there any doubt that a 14 y-o kid is going to claim he/she is 18+ if that's what it takes to get on Myspace? I think not.

This kinda law makes it worse, now the little kids will lie about their age and make it harder for the real criminals to be found and convicted.
 
Can't spank a child (heavens forbid!) but you can force access into someone else's website just because your kid is using it. :rolleyes:
 
Typical of this country. Millions of users are just fine. Even millions of teens. A few high profile incidents and then everyone's screaming lawsuit.

I hate how we have society where 1% gets away with ruining it for 99%.
 
This law is great. It puts the responsibility where it should be, on the people who run the site.

If you get your identity stolen because your bank left your private financial information in the dumpster out back, who's to blame? The bank.
 
The way they will enforce it is by using a credit card. They will charge $.01 on the car to be sure it is legit. Second why don't the pass a bill that says we are responcible for ourselves
 
Porn, on MySpace? That's never happened :p

That's not the site's purpose, and it's an "account deletable" offense to post anything like that.

Even so...if your kid happens upon a porn site account on myspace, they could've just as easily typed "www.(insert any word that has to do with something even slightly derougitory here).com" and gotten to a porn site.

If they lok for it, they will find it.

It's not myspace's fault. It's the kids and the parents.
 
How the hell do these kids come to contact with older people blows my mind. I got a myspace and in order for a man to contact you he has to be your friend, and in order for him to be your friend he has to send a friend request, and so basically these punk @$$ kids know what they are getting into when they accept a friend request from a person they don't know.
 
Oh great another pointless law. First they yak about banishing Spanking in CA and now this dumb law from Georgia. Ok whats next?
 
It's not myspace's fault. It's the kids and the parents.

I'd agree. And I'd add that creating further legislation with the specific goal of further limiting our natural rights is a gravely dangerous thing to allow. Maybe myspace isn't a great place for parents to let their kids go, but that doesn't mean we need a damn law about it. It just means that parents need to keep a close eye on their kids' internet activities....which I am pretty sure is something that has always been true.
 
I had major issues with a 14 yr daughter getting into sh*t on the inet. Not on myspace (blocked) but on some chat I didn't block (everything I thought of was blocked in hosts or at the router). She ended up calling some idiot across country who was over 18 and who kept mailing her phones (which I promptly bridged 120V AC across and then gave back to her). The computer was not in her room, it was in the family room. She just got into sh*t when I was at work. Now the child is 17 and has no PW to a computer and has to ask to use one. Sheesh. No law is going to prevent someone from being delinquent if that's what they're determined to do.
 
I had major issues with a 14 yr daughter getting into sh*t on the inet. Not on myspace (blocked) but on some chat I didn't block (everything I thought of was blocked in hosts or at the router). She ended up calling some idiot across country who was over 18 and who kept mailing her phones (which I promptly bridged 120V AC across and then gave back to her). The computer was not in her room, it was in the family room. She just got into sh*t when I was at work. Now the child is 17 and has no PW to a computer and has to ask to use one. Sheesh. No law is going to prevent someone from being delinquent if that's what they're determined to do.

Heh my dad tried to block me out of a computer once when I was 20... I reset the bios, so that password was gone, and instead of dealing with the windows password, I simply had a version of linux that would run off a cd and just got on the internet through that, via the wonderful world of firefox.

OWNED!

Anyways ya, its really not that hard, and there are always ways around. It's almost a waste of time to try things like this because it wont matter, so what will they do next cc info to verify? Lol how many kids don't steal their parents cc numbers and how many working 14-15 year olds don't have a visa check card or something of the sort...
 
I had major issues with a 14 yr daughter getting into sh*t on the inet. Not on myspace (blocked) but on some chat I didn't block (everything I thought of was blocked in hosts or at the router). She ended up calling some idiot across country who was over 18 and who kept mailing her phones (which I promptly bridged 120V AC across and then gave back to her). The computer was not in her room, it was in the family room. She just got into sh*t when I was at work. Now the child is 17 and has no PW to a computer and has to ask to use one. Sheesh. No law is going to prevent someone from being delinquent if that's what they're determined to do.

So umm *cough* is she hot? */cough*


lol jk!
 
Its actually a great test!!!!

Any kid who is too stupid to answer, "I'm over 13 years of age" when asked the question, is picked up by the stuuuupid police for disposal.

Evolution is then back on track, and "Idiocracy" will never come true. :D

Right this way little fella, you've been selected to join Team Sped. Right this way to for your personal tour of the State Woodchipper (tm). :eek:
 
I like that, if your kids get molested/abused by someone online, authorities go after the person who did it, and child protective services take your children away since you obviously are an unfit parent!

But this is seriously stupid, it's unfortunately that a good majority of our "leaders" (ie the ones who make laws) tend to not know anything about what they're making laws about.

To quote one famous senator from Alaska... "it's a series of tubes"
 
Heh my dad tried to block me out of a computer once when I was 20... I reset the bios, so that password was gone, and instead of dealing with the windows password, I simply had a version of linux that would run off a cd and just got on the internet through that, via the wonderful world of firefox.

OWNED!

Well if you're living with the parents and they managed to punish you for something when you're 20 years old, I think you need to take a hard look into a mirror and redefine the meaning of Owned ;)
 
Whooo hooooo, another complete waste of time from the government. Do they just want to suck all the fun out of everyone's Lives? Seriously parents watch your own damn kids and lawmakers maybe you could fix something good like social security or taxes, or hell maybe the trillion dollar deficit?
 
Today on FBI's 10 Most Wanted: 14 year old Jill Smith. She is armed and dangerous with scantily clad pictures of herself, and considered to be an extremely bad girl for lying about her age on her myspace account and borrowing her parents credit card to authorize it.
Her parents were taken in for questioning, but all they could say is "Why God, Why?!?!?!"

Really though. That's how absurd this seems to me.
 
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