Declan McCullagh wrote:
Any business merely displaying material without first requiring a credit card or other proof of age could be found liable under the statute, which criminalizes commercial distribution of words or images that could be deemed "harmful to minors," even if no actual sale is involved, Beeson said.
A credit card passes for proof of age? I had a credit card as soon as I was old enough to drive (it made my father's job of family accounting easier when all of the gas payments showed up on the credit card bill) at age 16. A larger problem I see with credit cards being used as a form of ID is that it may become comon practice to ask for name and credit card number at the enterance to every contravercial site. If so, people will begin to abuse the system, as it is a very simple matter to start logging all names, credit card numbers, and expiration dates of people who enter your site, and then make charges to their credit cards. -- KORO