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At first glance, the dozens of measures Myspace has agreed to take to make it’s users safer, those outlined in this New York Times article seem easily hackable and not quite the watershed moment we were expecting, especially since MySpace has been talking to background check and p*rn-removers for quite some time.

Parents blocking kids won’t work. Kids are too smart for this, too easy to circumvent. Identifying naked people is straightfoward, there are several companies that do this already. What’s the holdup already?

Search for Myspace in the search box here for more about what social networks are doing to keep members safe.

• Myspace Amber Alerts
• Playboys’ Girls of Myspace
• To Catch a Myspace Predator
• Single Parents - a Large Niche Gets Noticed
• Back in Action