AP article about online age verification

This was actually on the front page of Yahoo News.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060717/ap_on_hi_te/age_verification_online

Good article.

Except for the quote from Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal who said, "if we can invent the Internet, ... surely there are means to verify the ages of those individuals, or such means can be developed." The Internet in general favors animinitiy. It's the problem and the benefit at the same time.

This was a front-page story in my local newspaper. Lower half of the page, but it was on page 1.

It does highlight the difficulties in getting real age verification to work. It also included several common misconceptions, such as the idea that owning a credit card proves you're above a certain age. As several people in the forums here have pointed out, requiring a credit card may make it harder for an underage person to get in, but they can still go to a store like Wal-Mart, or to their local bank, and spend cash to get a Visa or Mastercard debit card. It is effective in keeping out the casual underage visitor, but isn't a complete solution.