On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 [email protected] wrote: > > The age 16 is also relevant to a few things in UK law, so if we're going > > to display flags for 'legally relevant' ages, that should probably be > > one of them as well. I don't know if there are any other important > > numbers in other countries... > > To my understanding, though, for legal purposes the critical age limit is > the country where the servers and company are located. It doesn't matter > if you can do something at 16 in England, if you can't do it legally until > 18 in the US which is where the servers and company are. Because DW has > to be compliant with US law on the subject.
Er, it's useful for communities to know, in terms of "this person is legal in their home country and therefore their parents will not sic the relevant law enforcement agencies on us if they decide to check up on what Precious Darling's been doing online." Am I wrong or isn't it the parents who have the power to make trouble? **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
