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MySpace: 90,000 sex offenders removed from site

Technology Feb. 04, 2009 - 04:48AM JST ( 5 )

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airrunweskerFeb. 04, 2009 - 09:54AM JST

...now there's no one left!
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Good_JorbFeb. 05, 2009 - 12:42AM JST

How did they identify the 90,000 sex offenders as sex offenders?
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proxyFeb. 05, 2009 - 12:52AM JST

That is a heck of a lot of sex offenders. Wikipedia indicates that 5.5% of sex offenders released from prison in the US end up back in prison for another sex offense and a total of 48% of sex offenders will be rearrested for some kind of offense vs, 68% for all people released from prison.

I would sure like to know if there are any child molesters around where I live!

But I do think it is rather problematic to include people found guilty of statutory rape in with child molesters and rapists. Many jurisdictions do not have "Romeo and Juliet" laws. An male that just turned 18 that had "consensual" sex with his almost 17 year old girlfriend can be found guilty of statutory rape in many places and end up on a sex offenders list. There was a case of two 15 year old girls taking naked pictures of themselves with their cell phones and e mailing the pictures to their friends. The two 15 year old girls have been charged with possessing child pornography (pictures of themselves that they took themselves) and if found guilty will have to register as sex offenders. Not only that but the innocent people who were send the e mails by the girls were also arrested for the possession of child pornography.

I find the timing rather strange as there was a scientific paper released last week that said most of the danger children face online is from other children and there is little to fear from adult sexual predators online. This smells like a publicity stunt to make the news. If MySpace was really concerned they would block access to everyone under 18, but that would kill their business. Business is more important than protecting children from falling victim to other children, go figure.
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jonobugsFeb. 05, 2009 - 01:18AM JST

Sounds good except that it's pretty easy to just lie about your age and circumstances. There is really no way for anyone to verify any information, so sex offenders can easily go back online and lie about their age, etc.

I'm assuming that the 90,000 people that were taken off were either self admitted sex offenders or used their real names and had a criminal record. I gotta say, that's a heck of a lot of sex offenders! It also sounds like it's only from one Country, but there just isn't enough information to verify that.
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rajakumarFeb. 05, 2009 - 01:20AM JST

Myspace ,don't use it,don't bother what they do.