FTC: even savvy kids can easily access sexual content

According to the Federal Trade Commission’s survey issued Thursday, even savvy youngster can figure out how to access violent or explicitly sexual content in some in Internet.

 The research of variety of online worlds, where users create avatars and interact with other users' avatars, found 7 of the worlds with the most explicit sex and violence set a minimum age of 13 and 8 set a minimum age of 18. Kids under 13 attempted to register, will be rejected at five of the sites.

 There.com’s CEO, said that they tried to keep their world relatively free of sex and violence. "We recognize that that's a problem and we're trying to deal with it," he told Reuters. "The amount of violent content and sexual content that they'll find in There is minimal."

 Red Light Center, setting a minimum age of 18 and whose home page contains nudity, also lets users who were rejected as too young to immediately try again with a different birthday.

 As part of the FTC report, requested by Congress, the commission recommended virtual world operators develop better mechanisms to screen out children and ensure that adults in these virtual worlds do not interact with children or teens.

 FTC also insists on tighter enforcement of the online world's rules regarding profanity in sites aimed at children, and training for community enforcers or moderators to enforce any rules.