Myspace: sucking ass FOR THE CHILDREN
MySpace bars 29,000 sex offenders
The company found more than 29,000 convicted sex offenders in the United States had profiles on MySpace - up from a figure of 7,000 given in May.
MySpace said it was pleased it had identified and removed the profiles of the offenders.
I’ve complained about this before—”sex offender” is far too broad a term, Megan’s Law is a miscarriage of justice, if these people are online they’ve already done their time (though double jeopardy doesn’t apply in this case, obviously), it’s not Myspace’s place to be a parent to your children, &c. &c.
“The exploding epidemic of sex offender profiles on MySpace - 29,000 and counting - screams for action,” said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.
In North Carolina, Attorney General Roy Cooper wants a state law that would require children to obtain parental permission before creating profiles on sites such as MySpace, and require the site to check parents’ identity.
Attorneys General Blumenthal and Cooper are fucking idiots, either out to get some easy votes or insane paranoiacs ignorant of their own laws.
That is all.
Edit: Alright, not quite all. There’s also this post by Stephanie Booth, which for the most part articulates my thoughts a bit more coherently. Go read it.
echomikeromeo said,
July 26th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
What I thought was pretty ridiculous (as if this wasn’t bad enough) is that there’s the proposal to require anyone registering for MySpace to provide proof of age - and if you’re a kid you’d have to provide your parents details and your parents would be called or emailed for permission. I just couldn’t believe that - what happened to the entire concept of internet anonymity?
This is what happens when you let politicians near the internet.