Re: There is lack of balance on both sides
"You do know there are "free" and "made free" VPN software solutions available to under 18s don't you"
- Yes of course. But this is irrelevant. The VPN is a transport mechanism, the problem is end-point verification. If I cannot set up an account on FB without providing some simple ID, it matters not a jot if I access it via VPN, carrier pigeon or tarot cards.
BTW, no need to be rude. That's for Facebook and Twitter.
And as for another comment: yes, of course you can get relatively anonymous top-up cards. But as always, the category error is to say "because there are ways around this, you should not even try. MOST people will use normal cards, so you've protected most people.
We used this point to great effect when selling our parental controls system, and even included "ways to circumvent" in the sales literature. Customers realised that 99% of theri users would not be able to
circumvent
Daily Mail: yes, an awful newspaper, but that doesn't mean everything they say is automatically wrong.
In the wider sense, if all those "free" services we use on the Net were tkaing small payments all sorts of societal and economic problems might be alleviated.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
