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Archive for May 2006

May 31st, 2006

Satanic panic over MySpace at school

This Can’t go on
I must inform the law
Can this still be real
Or just some crazy dream
-”Number of the Beast” by Iron Maiden
Satanic references on myspace lead to precautions at Pisgah:
Students at Pisgah High School are being kept inside all day after a rumor sparked by a threat made it on to the Web site, myspace.com.
�We […]

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May 31st, 2006

Xanga has ratings?

Mysteries of adolescence infuse social internet sites:
The only thing I really wanted to talk about from this article is this…
Social networking sites are also struggling to come to terms with controlling content that might offend. Google last week shut down some Orkut communities that the Brazilian government said had advocated violence and human rights violations. […]

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May 30th, 2006

Mom sues school over MySpace

School Blamed for Daughter’s Internet Liaison:
(Honeoye, N.Y.) AP - Luann Waden recently filed a notice of claim that she plans to sue the Honeoye Central School District.
She blames the school district after her daughter ran off with a guy she met online.
Waden said she made clear on a consent form at the start […]

By Trench -- 10 comments

May 29th, 2006

MCS in Time

The Thin Blue Line at MySpace:
How’s your Memorial Day? Mine is kicking ass. Why you ask. Well in case you didn’t click the link MCS and yours truly has made the pages of Time Magazine. I haven’t read the entire article myself but so far it looks promising. So be sure to pick up the […]

By Trench -- 8 comments

May 28th, 2006

One’s a little bit country slut. The other’s a little bit rock and roll whore.

Marie Osmond Shocked By Internet Sex Talk:
I don’t know how true this story is because I’ve only seen it on questionable news sites but it still cracks me up…
Pop star-turned-doll maker Marie Osmond has launched a personal crusade to clean up the Internet after learning her two teenage daughters have been posting sexually explicit correspondence […]

By Trench -- 3 comments

May 28th, 2006

Chicago vandals busted on MySpace

Church Worker Catches Vandals In Web:
More criminals caught through MySpace…
Brenda Swartz, executive director of the Concordia Avondale Campus, said she used the Web site MySpace.com to find the alleged vandals.
“They had spray-painted their gang names on the walls,” Swartz said. “So we used that as a starting point as far as doing a search with […]

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May 27th, 2006

MySpace extorters were applying for jobs

Teens sought MySpace jobs:
This is too rich. The two teens accused of trying to extort $150K from MySpace are now saying they were merely applying for jobs…
Two teenage Long Island computer programmers were trying to land a job with MySpace.com, not trying to extort the Web site, one of their attorneys said Friday.
The popular social […]

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May 26th, 2006

Joel Thomas

Over at TheTrenchcoat Chronicles I’ve been talking about 16-year-old Joel Thomas. An Oxford Michigan teen that was found to have 16 homemade bombs wrapped in black electrical tape with wicks protruding from one end, two homemade bombs consisting of shotgun shells wrapped in black electrical tape, a container of paste that law enforcement officials described […]

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May 25th, 2006

Cops use MySpace to find beating suspect

Police Use MySpace to Find Beating Suspects:
MySpace does some good now and again…
CROFTON, Md. (AP) - Anne Arundel County police say they used the social-networking Web site myspace.com to track down five people they’ve charged in a beating in Crofton.
Police say it happened on May 5th when three South River High School students walking near […]

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May 25th, 2006

Two teens try to blackmail MySpace

Two Charged In Alleged MySpace Extortion Plot:
(CBS) LOS ANGELES Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Wednesday the filing of felony charges against two New York computer programmers accused of hatching a plot to extort money from the operators of MySpace.com.
Shaun Harrison, 18, and Saverio F Mondelli, 19, were arrested last Friday by members of the […]

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May 24th, 2006

Ashley Reeves not paralyzed

Mother: Ashley Reeves neck not broken:
Good news for Ashley Reeves, the 17-year-old girl who was assaulted and left for dead in the woods by gym teacher Samson Shelton. It was originally thought that Shelton had broken her neck. He confessed to hearing her neck snap when he assaulted her. However her parents are reporting that […]

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May 23rd, 2006

MO. teen brags about assault on Xanga

Teen who boasted of attack is charged:
An Excelsior Springs teenager who allegedly attacked a classmate and then bragged about it on a Web site now faces charges.
Anna V. Aldana, 17, is charged with assault while on school property. Aldana is accused of attacking a 17-year-old classmate May 8 in a hallway at Excelsior Springs High […]

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May 23rd, 2006

Winthrop, Mass. MySpace threat

Winthrop Student In Custody For ‘Credible Threats’:
(CBS4) WINTHROP Police in Winthrop have taken a high school student into custody for allegedly making threats against other students and at least one adult.
The student’s myspace.com web page shows him in a ski mask, holding two guns, and going by the name “AK47.”
According to officials, the investigation was […]

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May 23rd, 2006

Texas AG joins the list

AG wants MySpace.com to make Web safer for kids:
Add Texas to the list of states whose Attorney Generals want MySpace to crackdown on predators. The other states so far have been New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
AUSTIN — An investigator posing as a 13-year-old girl with a profile on MySpace.com helped officers nab a man […]

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May 22nd, 2006

LJ: Breastfeeding? Bad. Incest? Ok.

I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Apparently the bastions of free speech over at LiveJournal have a problem with breastfeeding. Yet strangely they have no problem with pedophilia or incest.
Do the bosses at SixApart even know what’s going on at LiveJournal?
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