Thats ALOT of sex offenders

[Mrs Behavin]

RALEIGH, N.C. - Myspace.com has found and deleted more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site — more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, officials in two states Tuesday.
North Carolina’s Roy Cooper is one of several attorneys general who recently demanded the News Corp.-owned Web site provide data on how many registered sex offenders were using the popular networking site, along with information about where they live.
After initially withholding the information, citing federal privacy laws, MySpace began sharing the information in May after the states filed formal legal requests.
At the time, MySpace said it had already used a database it helped create to remove about 7,000 profiles of sex offenders, out of a total of about 180 million profiles on the site.
Cooper’s office said Tuesday, however, that now the figure has risen past 29,000.

MySpace deletes 29,000 sex offender profiles - Security - MSNBC.com

 

[GraceAbounds]

It is about time.

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

gah...well if you guys wonder why my profile is gone....













haha im jk!

 

[U2K Tha Greate$t]

I'm on myspace everyday, i dont see any, but then again i dont go looking for any. On a side note, i did come across some nazi/whitepower/black panthers/racism stuff, and i think tom needs to address those issues. But i dont think he cares. Thats why i took tom off my friends list lol.

On a serious note, i hope parents can teach thier kids the way so they wont put up thier real address online.

 

[GraceAbounds]

My kids don't have 'myspace' accounts.

 

[All Else Failed]

I've had a myspace account for around 3 years, I use it to find music, thats it. It seems parents think myspace is some sort of evil thing, while its just how you use it that makes the difference.

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

tom isn't even in charge of myspace anymore...it got bought out a while back. he still works for them but he doesnt own it now. An quite frankly you probably wouldn't know if you did come across a sex offender, it's not like they say HI IM A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER on their profiles. I'm sure they did it by name/IP

 

[GraceAbounds]

I believe there is tons of evil all over the Internet. As a parent I do not put my child in adult situations, because they are still growing and maturing and are not equipped to make adult decisions. As parents that is our job, to protect our kids and to ease them into more grown up situations in a supervised atmosphere so that they can practice making adult decisions (with training wheels on). This way if they fall, an adult is near by to pick them up, show them where they went wrong, and then steer them back in the right direction in love.

 

[Tim]

I wonder if any of them will try to sue MS. I mean it doesn't say anything in their TOS about not allowing sex offenders. You must be at least 18 to join. So the site is supposed to be for adults, right? If you allow your child to have a myspace account, then it is you that are violating the TOS...

Don't you guys ever watch "To catch a predator"? Do you realize that most of these sleaze bags are coming from AOL chat rooms?
I wouldn't allow my kids to hang out alone anyplace where adults can talk to them freely without my supervision, why would I allow them to do that online?

Parents need to wake up and realize that they can't rely on the content providers on the internet to protect their kids, that's the job of the parent. And until they come up with a kid safe internet, mine will not be unsupervised while on it.

 

[All Else Failed]

I believe there is tons of evil all over the Internet. As a parent I do not put my child in adult situations, because they are still growing and maturing and are not equipped to make adult decisions. As parents that is our job, to protect our kids and to ease them into more grown up situations in a supervised atmosphere so that they can practice making adult decisions (with training wheels on). This way if they fall, an adult is near by to pick them up, show them where they went wrong, and then steer them back in the right direction in love.

Yeah I agree.

 

[Peter Parka]

You don't need to be over 18 to join myspace. Anyone under 18 who joins though automatically has their profile set to private so that the only people who can add them or message them are people who know their last name or e-mail address and thats only if the kid approves them. If they don't, the person can't see their profile. Unfortunately you get a lot of under 18s who pretend they are over 18 so its off private then put up photos of themselves dressed like sluts. Tom also is just the face of myspace, its run by a group of people. If you look at how many millions of myspaces there are its no wonder some dodgy ones creep through, the people in charge haven't got the time to trawl through everyones profiles constantly. If there is something inapropriate you see, report it and it gets removed and the persons I.P. banned. Once again I think the problem here isn't with myspace but with parents who arn't teaching their kids to be responsible properly and not supervising them carefully enough on the computer.

 

[sundvlfn88]

Wow, who would of ever guessed?