MySpace targets sex offenders
p2pnet.net News:- Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace.com has for some considerable time been infamous as a hunting ground for online sexual predators.
Now the people who run it are to, “develop technologies to help block convicted sex offenders” in their, “latest attempt to address complaints about sexual predators and other dangers to teens,” says Associated Press.
Here’s a thought: maybe Murdoch should have contacted MediaSentry which allegedly identifies corporate music industry customers so Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the members of the Big Four Organzied Music cartel, can sue them.
Instead, MySpace is, “partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. of Miami to build and deploy within 30 days a database that will contain the names and physical descriptions of convicted sex offenders in the U.S,” says the story.
“An automated system will search for matches between the database and MySpace user profiles. Employees will then delete any profiles from the website that match.”
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December 11th, 2006 at 6:41 am
And said sex offenders will simply create profiles with false information to circumvent the system. Way to go, morons.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:07 am
I’d like to take the opportunity to point out that flashers and performers of non-vaginal sex are classed generically as “sex offenders” just like serial child rapists. Therefore, in addition to the stigma of registration for a long time or even life, they now cannot use MySpace. Let’s just piss off the un-dangerous offenders a little more, OK?