[Melas]

Porn doesn't get the exemption, the internet gets the exemption, don't confuse the 2. If you go to the bookstore and try to buy a Playboy, you have to prove you are 18.

However, the net is the WORLD at your fingertips. We've yet to come up with a way to control the net like the cash register at the bookstore.

[Tailgunner Joe]

There are ways but social liberals are against them.

[babyface00]

However, the net is the WORLD at your fingertips. We've yet to come up with a way to control the net like the cash register at the bookstore.

Amazon.com's web site appears to me to be exactly the equivalent of a "cash register at the bookstore". It isn't as if the technology isn't there, it's use was simply banned by the SC.

FWIW, you can purchase alchohol and cigarettes over the web. Those sites seem to have found a way to restrict their products to those of legal age. I guess the difference is in that no one's giving away alchohol and cigarettes to minors as an enticement.

[jwalsh07]

Porn doesn't get the exemption, the internet gets the exemption, don't confuse the 2. If you go to the bookstore and try to buy a Playboy, you have to prove you are 18.

That is false. It is illegal to sell tobacco and alcohol products to minors on the internet.