Gary D. Robertson, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, 7/24/07

Attorney General Roy Cooper championed a bill Tuesday that would require children to receive parental permission before creating profiles on social networking Web sites like MySpace.com, and require the Web sites to enact procedures for verifying the parents' identity and age.

"All we're doing is giving parents the right to make a choice whether their children can go online," Cooper told a House judiciary committee. Cooper has sought this and other requirements to reduce the threat for children to be lured by sexual predators on MySpace and similar sites.