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Originally Posted by Robbie Do adult billing processors accept pre-paid credit cards? I don't see any kind of way on any or our join forms from any of our processors to do that?

They can be used for online purchases they are branded VISA or Mastercharge and work in all ATMs in the Cirrus Maestro Networks ...

http://usa.visa.com/personal/cards/p...-explore.html#

Example ...

They are issued by member banks and private labeled for stores that are sponsored by private banks -- if anyone in merchant account processing wants to comment as to their treatment ... be my guest ...

There is online bank account debiting also -- most banks will open accounts for minors with a parent as the co-signer. However, the principal account holder can make transactions with the funds in the account.

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Where to use it Use your card online, over the phone, and at the millions of places where Visa debit cards are accepted ? supermarkets, clothing stores, drug stores, restaurants, web sites, gas station pumps, and many more. Your money is replaced if the card is lost or stolen.

One of the points in the COPA Decision overturning the access restrictions to adult websites by law was that the possession or use of a credit card was not proof of age.

Should there even be card readers (or OCR) on all computers in the future and all ID documents have a machine readable code it still would not be proof of age -- a minor could just scan an adult's ID card and pretend to be them.

So, it boils down to tagging a website so if a content filter is active it will deny access to the browser. We use the ICRA and RTA tagging -- at least we make some effort.

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U.S. Supreme Court BUTLER v. MICHIGAN, 352 U.S. 380 (1957) 352 U.S. 380 BUTLER v. MICHIGAN. APPEAL FROM THE RECORDER'S COURT OF THE CITY OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. No. 16. Argued October 16, 1956. Decided February 25, 1957. Section 343 of the Michigan Penal Code, in effect, makes it a misdemeanor to sell or make available to the general reading public any book containing obscene language "tending to the corruption of the morals of youth." For selling to an adult police officer a book which the trial judge found to have such a potential effect on youth, appellant was convicted of a violation of this section. Held: The statute violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the conviction is reversed. Pp. 380-384. Reversed. MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court. We have before us legislation not reasonably restricted to the evil with which it is said to deal. The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children. It thereby [352 U.S. 380, 384] arbitrarily curtails one of those liberties of the individual, now enshrined in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, that history has attested as the indispensable conditions for the maintenance and progress of a free society. We are constrained to reverse this conviction. Reversed.

This Supreme Court Decision is often cited in cases before the Courts where the constitutionally of limited access to adult material is mandated "We have before us legislation not reasonably restricted to the evil with which it is said to deal." A REASONABLE policy has to be written into the statute. Filling out some form or using a financial instrument that could be offered by a person of any age is not reasonable age verification -- this is why COPA was declared by the Courts as unconstitutional.