If you’re marketing on MySpace.com or other social networking sites, or even running such a site, note that Connecticut lawmakers are trying to pass a bill that requires age verification and parental consent to protect minors.

There’s also a bill before Congress that proposes the creation of a separate office within the FTC to deal with Internet pedophiles.

The goal of protecting children from online predators is laudable. In fact, I just agreed today to do some legal work for a related project.

However, tech inept politicians rarely legislate anything that it logistically feasible.

Pay close attention to these legislative efforts and comply with them. The penalties for violating such will be draconian in the interests of “protecting the children.”

About the Author

With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 14 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young shows entrepreneurs how to protect and grow their businesses online. He's the author of "Internet Marketing Legal Secrets Revealed," "How to Create Your Own Internet Business Without a Lawyer for Under $175," and the creator of Website Legal Forms Generator^TM. Not just a lawyer who focuses exclusively on Internet and marketing law, Mike’s been working with computers for more than 27 years (his first computer was an Atari 400 with 8 KiB RAM) and started representing Internet businesses back in 1996.