MySpace: 90,000 sex offenders removed from site

[RandySF]

Holy shit!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9649N380&show_article=1

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - MySpace officials say about 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from its huge online social networking Web site.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said Tuesday the new figure is nearly double what MySpace officials originally acknowledged last year when detailing who had used their site.

Cooper and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have led the charge seeking efforts to make social networking Web sites safer. MySpace officials sent the numbers to Blumenthal's office Tuesday.

Last year, the attorneys general received agreements from MySpace and rival online networking site Facebook to push toward making their sites safer for young users. Both implemented dozens of safeguards, including limiting how older users can search members under 18.

[Mari333]

1. good lord!!!!

no wonder I dont go on myspace anymore. thats a lot of stench!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Wonder what the identifying parameters were.

[Lex]

3. not all sex offenders are sex offenders against children

I mean, that term doesn't mean they are child molesters. Some, but not all. I'm not arguing they shouldn't be removed from MySpace, btw.

[Posteritatis]

6. And that's out of something around 150 million accounts, too (nt)

[seabeyond]

19. and that is only a fraction of offenders that have been caught. n/t

[Terran]

7. I too was wondering how they positively identifed that many

people, absent SSN's or birthdates. Photos wouldn't suffice. But I guess myspace would have the URL's of everyone who's registered (much like DU does), and could get personal information that way via subpoena from ISP's...? Is that how it would work? My brain hurts.

[kimmerspixelated]

4. That's a sickening number!

But it's great that they did it! Jeepers!

[Kansas Wyatt]

5. Republicans immediately cry foul and claim they are being shut out of MySpace.

I kid the Repubicans... Oops, I meant Republicans.

[spoony]

10. LOL

:D

[backscatter712]

11. Now Mark Foley's gonna have to find another social networking site...

:rofl:

[Dukkha]

8. next stop, Facebook

it's the whack-a-mole effect, No pun intended. They'll just find another avenue to exploit. It's creepy how many of them are out there!

[burythehatchet]

9. Great way to round em up and have them self identify

[ProdigalJunkMail]

12. at least i know why i can't log in now ...

:-)

sP

[chollybocker]

13. Now I know why I couldn't log in to my account today...

I keed. ;) 90,000 is a sickeningly large number.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. beat ya by THIS much... n/t

[arcadian]

15. What happened to "served their time"?

I think this sets a a really bad precedent. It's one thing for the gov't to restrict somebody but it's something else for a corp. to do it.

[Bucky]

16. You have a right to privacy. You have a right to a good education. You have a right to paaaarrrteee.

You don't have a right to use Facebook. If they don't want convicted sex offenders on their site, I don't see why they should keep them on.

[juno jones]

17. How many of these people pissed in an alley

got caught and now have no lives?

Great to see the child molesters and rapists off but parameters are everything.

[seabeyond]

18. damn good thing we have the porn to help keep our sex crimes low. geez

can you imagine what it would be if porn wasnt mainstreamed thru out out society allowing people to get off on porn instead of girls and boys.

thank god