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First it was To Catch A Predator. Now, New York Democrat Charles E. Schumer and Arizona Republican John McCain say they planned to introduce a bill at the beginning of the 110th Congress in January that would require registered sex offenders to submit their active email addresses to law enforcement.
Last week, MySpace said it would offer in the next 30 days a technology to identify and block convicted sex offenders from the popular online social network. Myspace struck a deal with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp., to build the new feature.
There are 550,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, tracked from 46 state sex offender registries. What about the other four states?
Category:Safety Tags: background+checks - myspace - SafetyBlog reactions
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guy (Check me out!)
// Dec 11, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Technological answers to complex problems are actually no answers. These measures don’t attack the core of the problem and as long as users keep posting porn, girls promote their webcams (probably just the adult operators themselves using a cover) and spammers keep creating profiles to further their cause no regulation or law in the world will be able to stop making myspace a playground for stalking people.
If sex offenders carry a GPS tag within themselves -even if as a temporary punishment- they will surely think twice about their attempts to reach out whether their email address have been posted at a registrar or not.
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Edward (Check me out!)
// Dec 13, 2006 at 1:07 am
Uhhh yeah, I’m sure an offender wouldn’t know how to get another e=mail address. Seriously, I sometimes think these politicians are living in la la land. The FCC clamps down on Howard Stern, so he goes to Sirius and is more obscene then ever. I wish we could go back to a part time legislature so they could quit passing laws to fix the previous laws that screwed things up in the first place. OK I’m rambling now ;)
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David Evans (Check me out!)
// Dec 13, 2006 at 7:53 am
I’m all for a some accountability. It’s difficult to balance the openness of the interweb and services like Myspace with civil liberties and expensive tracking and identification schemes.
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soon to be rich pervert (Check me out!)
// Jan 21, 2007 at 5:12 am
dude the second I have to register my email addy im gonna sue sue sue, Ill be the richest ‘pervert’ on the block. Suddenly fathers are gonna beg me to hang out with there under aged daugthers, and ill be able to pay vigilantes to kill other people besides me =) life will be good…for once.
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