Quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
I also think that a solution that relied on credit cards for age verification could be appealed on the basis of discrimination of some sort.
You can't say that rich people have more of a right to free speech than poor people. You can say that rich people have a right to purchase products, but you can't say that a poor person, or a person without credit, has no right to read or view certain material based on content.
Imagine if the government made a law that only people with valid credit cards could visit the library, it would be overturned in a heart beat by the Supreme Court.
There has to be a valid appeal on those grounds alone.
|
A system that relied on SS #'s or similar information would be shot down as too invasive of your privacy. So if you can't use credit cards because it's discriminatory against poor people and you can't use SS #'s and/or other information because it invades your privacy to surf anonymously, what do you use?