Jailbait Switch

In his new London Times legal column, Reason Contributing Editor Walter Olson poses a question about the $30 million lawsuit against MySpace by the parents of a 14-year-old girl who met a 19-year-old boy there and later had sex with him: What if the two had met in a coffee shop instead? Wally also mentions a detail about the case I had not heard before: The boy is contemplating his own suit against MySpace, holding it responsible for letting the girl lie about her age and thereby putting him in a compromising situation.