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Originally posted by ControlThy
No real response to Labret's remarks with regards to the hypocrisy shown by some people?
Anyone who currently runs sites that allow underage individuals to access adult material should not speak.
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This argument doesn't hold water. It is parents responsibility to educate and make and enforce rules for their kids. It is not Lensman's job, or any webmaster's job, nor is it even possible, to try to find out the age of every person who visits their site. There are steps that can be taken, but there is no 100% solution, and some solutions cause problems for consenting adults. It can, however, be argued that it is a webmaster's responsibility to respond when he/she finds out that someone might be breaking the law by visiting his/her site illegally.
A more relevant argument would be this:
Anyone who owns an adult site, and knows about specific kids who have registered as members of that site, but who have not made an attempt to ban those underage members, are hypocrites if they ask Lensman to ban underage members of GFY.
I'm sure that there are kids that do anything and everything whenever and wherever they want. That doesn't make a webmaster a hypocrite for asking that specific people, once identified as minors, get banned, per existing law.
If I was a kid I would sit quietly and learn, but when you're a kid, being quiet isn't always easy.
