Originally posted by: DOSfan
There is a small loophole with this theory.
All it proves, is that people can, and do, lie over the internet.
If an official, FBI, state police, whatever, signs up for a chatroom as a 14 year old girl - and then some phreak chats this official up, all this proves is that the individual can not trust profiles and such.
All any person in such a position has to do is tell the official that they do not believe them, and then arrange a meeting.
If they get nabbed for online pedophilia, they just scream the meeting was to verify age.
It is not as "concrete" as having a "bait" person in real life.
By the same token, if a 14 year old signed up as say, a 22 year old, and then chatted up the official - what then? The official is then the "perv."
Internet law can not work like real life law.
This in no way makes the idea of people using the internet to find underage children to abuse right... It just makes it different, and harder, to prove correctly.