Precious Darling's parents would have to take it up, unless they could prove that a criminal offense was being committed. In which case, the police of that country would contact DW.
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DW Discuss] Profile request > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 12:33 PM > 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 _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
