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Posted: March 1, 2007

Make MySpace, Facebook Enforce Age Rules, Cooper Says

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Cooper Wants Law to Enforce Age Restrictions

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Cooper Wants Law to Enforce Age Restrictions
Raleigh, N.C. — State Attorney General Roy Cooper is pushing legislation that would require social Web sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com to enforce age restrictions.

“When we see child after child being lured off these sites into the clutches of child predators, we're just not going to stand by and let that happen,” Cooper said Thursday.

The attorney general pitched the legislation to a state Senate judiciary committee.

Cooper is also calling for tougher penalties for child predators and people who distribute child pornography.

He also wants to make it a felony to lie to an State Bureau of Investigation agent.
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boit62283 raises a valid (not to mention pivital) point - just how on earth does Cooper think he's going to get this enforced? Ban entry portals within the borders of North Carolina? Parents of children have a choice - either learn and become as computer savy as their kids AND pay close attention, or run the risk of having their kids' safety slide out from under them. Cooper can grandstand all he wants, but he has no enforcement ability. Parents do.
Click to view my profile FragmentFour
March 5, 2007 10:31 a.m.
don't blame the websites for bad parenting.
KeDecker
March 5, 2007 8:45 a.m.
You have to do more then JUST click on a new member to get a virus on myspace. If you click on a link ON THEIR site that could be porn but not just by clicking on their account can you get porn OR a VIRUS.

so he most likely clicked on a link on their site... and the new ones out there say NUDE PICS on them... and if you click on that it's a virus.
KeDecker
March 5, 2007 8:45 a.m.
my grandson was here and has a myspace he clicked on a new member and it was porn and it was a virus, it crashed the computer, it took my husband and teck help 3 days to get it up and running again. he is only 15 yrs. old. he is no longer allowed on the computers.
Click to view my profile Joy4u2
March 4, 2007 9:33 a.m.
Parents need to keep thier young children off these sites, it is not the role of the state to enforce parental controls.
St Ives
March 4, 2007 7:08 a.m.
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