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MySpace: 90,000 sex offenders removed from site

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MySpace: 90,000 sex offenders removed from site

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - MySpace officials say about 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from its huge online social networking Web site.

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said Tuesday the new figure is nearly double what MySpace officials originally acknowledged last year when detailing who had used their site. Cooper and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have led the charge seeking efforts to make social networking Web sites safer. MySpace officials sent the numbers to Blumenthal's office Tuesday.
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can't exactly say i am surprised at the numbers.
will the ACLU step in and take this up
 
I wonder if these people had all molested children they met on the internet, or if MySpace just obtained lists of "sex offenders" and banned them all. The whole "sex offender" label is really harmful to our society and our justice system, because it means so many different things. People can get tagged as sex offenders for stupid **** even if they don't pose a danger to anyone.

With that said, if MySpace actually investigated each of these people before they banned them and determined that they were a potential threat, then I think it's good. However, it's so easy to create a MySpace page without any accurate personal information that those people will probably be back before long.
 
Kandahar said:
I wonder if these people had all molested children they met on the internet, or if MySpace just obtained lists of "sex offenders" and banned them all. The whole "sex offender" label is really harmful to our society and our justice system, because it means so many different things. People can get tagged as sex offenders for stupid **** even if they don't pose a danger to anyone.

With that said, if MySpace actually investigated each of these people before they banned them and determined that they were a potential threat, then I think it's good. However, it's so easy to create a MySpace page without any accurate personal information that those people will probably be back before long.
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Good points. There are people who are registered as sex offenders because they were urinating in public or because they were 17 and having sex with a 15 year old.

Also, someone who is a sex offender against adults likely poses little risk of sex offense against teens.

Let's also not overlook the fact that some of these folks may have been on the site for the intended purpose of the site, social networking rather than stalking prey.

The cynic in me thinks that this is a mostly useless gesture. Anyone who is intent on stalking would probably not be using their real name, a name that can be searched on sex offender databases.
 
new coup for you said:
Yeah I've read about people being labeled as a "sex offender" for some pretty bull**** reasons. Like owning sex toys...in the wrong county.
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Or getting caught pissing in the bushes by a park ranger while out on a hiking trip.
 
Now who will send me glittery pictures saying that I'm fly?
 
new coup for you said:
Yeah I've read about people being labeled as a "sex offender" for some pretty bull**** reasons. Like owning sex toys...in the wrong county.
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If they were men, they probably deserved it. Only women should own sex toys.
 
GG Raleigh. Even though I hate your city, for the most part, I do think that you are doing a good job in not understanding that Myspace is old school. Facebook, now facebook is where all the Predators are.
 
Personally, I think obese people should be counted as sexual offenders.
 
Well, I guess they can do what they want, being a private business and all, but I fail to see why in the world it would be necessary to ban "sex offenders" (which, as mentioned already, can mean a multitude of things). Sex offenders aren't allowed to surf the net now? Talk to people? Post online? WTF? If they were doing nothing wrong, then I fail to see why they were banned.

Big mark against MySpace, IMO. Makes me glad I've never bothered to go to MySpace, and still have no plans to.

American said:
If they were men, they probably deserved it. Only women should own sex toys.
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WTF? I do hope you're kidding.
 
aps said:
Okay, Crippler, explain your reasons..... :cool:
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Well seing an obese woman(or man, from a womans perspective) can only ever be considered sexually offensive. If we are going to have to look at each other, we should at least be making the effort to be sexually attractive. :cool:
 
WI Crippler said:
Well seing an obese woman(or man, from a womans perspective) can only ever be considered sexually offensive. If we are going to have to look at each other, we should at least be making the effort to be sexually attractive. :cool:
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Like you, you mean, WI crippler?
 
rivrrat said:
WTF? I do hope you're kidding.
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I literally nearly peed my pants when i read this XD

But come on, you do have to agree that straight guys at the very least have no excuse :rofl
 
new coup for you said:
Yeah I've read about people being labeled as a "sex offender" for some pretty bull**** reasons. Like owning sex toys...in the wrong county.
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Aren't there are also a few 18 year olds flagged as sex offenders for having 16 and 17 year old girlfriends?
 
kaya'08 said:
I literally nearly peed my pants when i read this XD

But come on, you do have to agree that straight guys at the very least have no excuse :rofl
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Well... yes they do have an excuse. To use them with their partners. I've had A LOT of good times with men who had a closet full of toys. Including the toys my current BF brought with him when he moved in. :mrgreen:

I think some of ya just have a very narrow definition of "toys". ;) I include riding crops, handcuffs, blindfolds, rabbit fur gloves, over the door restraints, bed restraints, rope, silk scarves, floggers, cat-o-nine tails, nipple clips, collars, etc in my definition. ;)
 
rivrrat said:
Well... yes they do have an excuse. To use them with their partners. I've had A LOT of good times with men who had a closet full of toys. Including the toys my current BF brought with him when he moved in. :mrgreen:

I think some of ya just have a very narrow definition of "toys". ;) I include riding crops, handcuffs, blindfolds, rabbit fur gloves, over the door restraints, bed restraints, rope, silk scarves, floggers, cat-o-nine tails, nipple clips, collars, etc in my definition. ;)
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Heck my gal has a six year old. Ya want toys I'll tell you about toys. Can you transform the fire truck Transfomer?

I'm so jealous of you.............well not really;)
 
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