Attorney Ben Szoka with free-market advocate Progress and Freedom Foundation told CNET, “These suggestions and discussion are totally divorced from practical realities. It’s a burden on site operators. It’s a burden on speech rights, especially when you’re talking about teens, to access information without parental consent. Teens do have speech rights.” He added that parents do have the ability to block access to websites and online services using current technological options on consoles and computers. “What this really comes down to is that people at these groups think that parents are too dumb or lazy to use these tools,” he said.
But Common Sense’s statement said it’s trying to aid parents. “Today, the rapidly evolving and increasingly mobile digital world makes it significantly harder for parents to control their children’s personal information online,” the group said.
— Gamasutra - News - Advocacy Groups Demand FTC Put More Restrictions On Online Gaming Services