• No Space For Sex Offenders on MySpace

    No Space For Sex Offenders on MySpace

    Techtree News Staff, Feb 05, 2009 1524 hrs IST

    90,000 perverts barred from the site

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Social networking giant MySpace has confessed identifying and barred around 90,000 registered sex offenders ceasing their access to the site over the past two years.

The figure is 40,000 more than the count previously acknowledged by MySpace, according to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a co-chairman of the task force of state attorneys general looking into sex offenders' use of social networking, reports Reuters.



The online networking giant said that people who had been found guilty of sex crimes were removed and blocked them from the site.

Does this shocking exposure suggest that social networking websites are crowded with sex offenders? What can the authorities do to ensure a better security?

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James
,Elizabethtown, on Feb 06, 2009 11:39 PM
What can the authorities do to ensure a better security? PARENTING. The government is not your nanny. Authorities need to be out fighting crime instead of sitting on their oversize rear ends chatting on the internet. Legislators need to recognize that our economy is in flames and there are better things to do than write "feel good" laws that further their political careers.
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Molly
,Burnsville, on Feb 06, 2009 07:12 AM
The only I problem I see with this is that the ONLY sex offenders they kick off are level 3 offenders. What about the level 1 and 2? How many more are on there that shouldn't be? Makes you wonder. I know of 1 person on Myspace and Facebook, but he's not a level 3,so they haven't kicked him off.
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