Facebook Subpoenaed by New York State Over Sex Offenders
By Sean P. Aune
It seems MySpace isn’t the only one being accused of being too lax about the number of sex offenders on their website.
In what seems to have become the story du jour for social sites, Andrew Cuomo, the State Attorney General of New York, has subpoenaed Facebook over its failure to protect young users from sexual predators.
The complaint states that Facebook is not actively keeping up with the sexual predators or user complaints about them. Over the past few weeks, employees of the state of New York posed as underage users and stated they were approached by sexual predators and were able to access pornographic videos and images on the site.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, North Carolina’s Roy Cooper and Ohio’s Marc Dann were reported to have had a face-to-face meeting with representatives of Facebook last week, and while the meeting was productive, they still feel the social networking site has a long ways to go to satisfy them.
MySpace has faced similar problems as recent as this July, and there just seems to be no stopping of the “social networks as sexual predator haven” stories.
This news comes on the same day it is reported that Microsoft is attempting to purchase a 5% stake in the site for a price somewhere between $300 and $500 million.
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The 1,2,3’s of sex offenders
1. The recidivism rate of sex offenders is under 5%
2. 90% of all sex crimes are committed within the family
3. 92% of all sex crimes are perpetrated by people not not the sex offender registry.
If the bulls eye is 5% of the target and the bulls eye scores no points, what justifies the billions of tax payer dollars for the project?
October 13th, 2007
The 1,2,3’s of sex offenders.
1. The recidivism rate of sex offenders is under 5%
2. 90% of all sex crimes are committed within the family.
3. 92% of all sex crimes are perpetrated by people not on the sex offender registry.
If the bulls eye is 5% of the target and the bulls eye scores no points, what justifies the billions of tax payer dollars for the project?