It is always the same either with kid protection or piracy. You need just do realistic steps for it. The level how far you have to go with these steps relies on local laws.
For example i like the DCMA process. It is easy to cope and it has clear rules. Only you need is implement it and you are safe in the US (or on com and net domains, see
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/us-de ... -20110617/). it is really pity that there is no similar process for EU so one needs to adopt the US one.
You need be also aware that each such
process is expensive. it costs server and human resources to handle all the requests effectively. So it is not just about wish but also about costs of such process....
With kids is the matter even more sensitive. You can't just so tell "voila we are kid safe" you need also take responsibility for that to prevent being sued by parents. Lets imagine that we would run a kid safe grid. Here is a list of expected demands:
1) all adult members verified in RL and compared with lists of deviants
2) all kid members verified by school or parents
well above points may wary depends on local law but the bellow points are a need (i think):
3) have updated copy of the whole database on another machine and regularly scan for:
- adult animations (compare md5 of on asset type animation against dictionary)
- adult keywords in asset names and descriptions
- adult keywords on folder names
- adult keywords in profiles, picks and classifieds
- adult keywords in region names
- adult keywords in groups and group descriptions
- adult related scripts (search for keywords within script)
- adult related notecards (search for keywords within notecards)
- UUIDs for those banned in the past
as you see the extra server would be pretty busy all day and expensive too. Of course you can have a list of "approved" assets and speed up scans on assets blobs thanks to it. But you still have to scan the inventory items....
4) have staff which would resolve issues found by 3)
5) have staff monitoring new sims for for masked adult content
6) DISABLE HG to protect kids
7) enable OPENSIM_PG_ONLY on search query
etc..
As you see it is pretty expensive thing. And in fact it just replaces natural responsibility of parents for their kids!
Bo