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Social Networking Site Bans Sex Offenders, Turns Over Data

By Corey Rayburnyung

The social networking site MySpace has provided the names of 90,000 registered sex offenders now banned from the site to two state attorneys general.  The move comes despite the fact that a government sponsored task force found that online solicitation of children was not as big a deal as some had made it out to be. From the New York Times:MySpace provided two state attorneys general the names of 90,000 registered sex offenders it had banned from its site in response to a subpoena.The figure is 40,000 more than the amount previously acknowledged by MySpace, according to Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who along with Attorney General Roy Cooper of North Carolina are among officials pressing social networking sites to adopt more stringent safety measures...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).