Charles Arthur in the Guardian and Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC report on how Facebook is threatening the Daily Mail with legal action after a Daily Mail article by Mark Williams-Thomas suggesting the ease with which paedophiles can engage with minors on sites like Facebook that don’t offer proper age verification controls.
A Facebook UK Spokeswoman claimed: “The people at Facebook in the US were reading this and knew at once that it couldn’t have been our platform… …We have made Facebook much more favourable to the safety of minors – minors under 18 cannot receive messages from somebody over 18.”
I’ll make a promise to eat a copy of the Daily Mail (and post the video of me doing it on YouTube) if Facebook wins a legal case against the Daily Mail based on this. There’s not a judge in the land that they could convince that their “enter your date of birth” age verification process is robust enough to stop a paedophile from engaging with minors.
