A Texas girl named "sue"
I see more of these kind of stories lately. A Texas lady is suing Myspace for $30 million because her 14 year old daughter was allegedly molested by a 19 year old that met her on the popular website. Her contention? Myspace should have done more to protect her daughter.
I don't understand why Myspace is responsible? Does every website have to have an age-verification system set up?
Malls and bowling alleys don't segregate participants by age, why should websites?
As a parent, I have to wonder about other parents that abrogate their child-rearing responsibilities onto others. It's like people who believe in school prayer or teaching "Creationism", many of these problems go away with a good, strong home life. I realize it's Texas, but...
If American's penchant for get-rich-quick-by-litigation schemes transfers fully onto the Internet, we're going to lose a good thing because everyone will be too afraid and banner ads will be replaced by legal caveats warning that older men are after one thing and hot coffee will burn.
Posted on June 20, 2006
