"jfanonymous" == jfanonymous <jfanonymous@yahoo.com> writes:
jfanonymous> "COPPA, AKA Children Loose their Right to Free Speech Online" jfanonymous> - ME How, exactly, is the speech of children inhibited by COPPA? -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
-- At 10:25 PM 9/16/2000 -0400, Matt Curtin wrote:
How, exactly, is the speech of children inhibited by COPPA?
If you operate a bulletin board or a chat server, you are required to ask if those signing on are under age. If they admit to being under age, you are required to make them prove their identities and prove parental consent. I presume the next step will be to proclaim that usenet, IRC, etc are "loopholes", then that adult access is a loophole. (Make them prove that they are not a child. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ynFJhTp+RZ8MXf0JX7WkutRRT0GRLIbLyqJoxYJS 4OSRCbX81FDsLmUwCCUV2ds6Z4d+2y/VaOgb6DcPn
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