Professor Barry O'Sullivan:

Yes, as they are being distracted. The Senator knows that if somebody knocks on the door, it is a distraction and one might not be able to get one's head back into a process for quite some time. There are all sorts of issues in this regard. We need prudent, almost conservative, legislation on when we take parents from the equation. That is where we find the digital age of consent as a problem, as legislation has gone completely the other way. The thinking might be that we are giving kids access to the web but we are not; we are taking parents out of the equation.