MySpace removes 29,000 sex offenders

Author: Phil Cogar
Published: 26th July 2007
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Parents can let out a sigh of relief as MySpace has announced the deletion of 29,000 registered sexual offender profiles

Parents can let out a sigh of relief as MySpace has announced the deletion of 29,000 registered sexual offender profiles

On Tuesday, the News Corp owned company MySpace announced the detection and removal of the largest amount of sexual offender profiles yet after growing concerns from parents and the media called for tighter access to the popular social networking site.

Several Attorney Generals from various states have been putting pressure on MySpace to verify user's ages and obtain parental permission from the parents of minors since Wired revealed that it was possible to use code to search and find sexual offenders registered on the site last year.

The minimum age required to register on MySpace is 14, but that can easily be avoided by users lying about their age since there are no age verification checks in place.

While this is a good step to help keep a safe environment for children online, it is still not a substitute for good, old fashioned, parental observation. Many of the removed offenders may just create a new profile under a different name as it's very easy to do with no identification checks in place.

Do you feel slightly better about letting your children surf the web unsupervised, or does this not help you feel safer at all? Discuss it in the forums or in the comments below and let us know how you feel.
Quote specofdust 26th July 2007, 09:38
I'm betting that at least 20,000 of those people are just folks who when they were a year or so above the legal age for consent had sex with someone who was a few months below it. The whole concept of "sex offender" needs to be overhauled.
Quote capnPedro 26th July 2007, 09:40
Even so, that's an awful lot of peados for just one website.

Edit: OK, I guess a 'sex offender' could also be a rapist or whatever. I apologize to all the rapists, didn't mean to forget you.
Quote specofdust 26th July 2007, 10:25
I hate you posting in these sorts of threads capnpedro...I always misread your name as Capn.Pedo
Quote capnPedro 26th July 2007, 11:22
Heh, I was tempted to add some words. And a potential innuendo?
In your endo!

Urgh, no sleep and too much Dr Pepper. Ignore me please.
Quote M_D_K 26th July 2007, 12:22
I would agree that is alot of pedo, now there gonna keep filtering it for the ones that are creating or have created alias accounts
Quote Spacecowboy92 26th July 2007, 13:31
Wont the pedos and whatnot just set up new accounts, theres only so much they can do to stop them re-regestering.
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