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Archive for June 2006

June 21st, 2006

Too Funny

H/T to Kate.
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June 21st, 2006

MySpace going global

TechCrunch has a story about how MySace is branching out to to foreign markets.
Great, I’ll have a world of pedophiles to tell you about instead of just the U.S.
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June 21st, 2006

MISSING: Kayla Molzahn

Family Fears Teens Disappearance Linked To Myspace:
COVINGTON, Wash — A Port Orchard family is mobilizing to find a missing teen whose disappearance may be linked to the website myspace.com
The family of 15-year-old Kayla Molzahn will hand out hundreds of fliers with the teen’s picture this week hoping to find her. Kayla has been missing for […]

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June 21st, 2006

MySpace to beef up security…again

MySpace.com Tightening Security for Underage Members:
NEW YORK � MySpace.com, the top online teen hangout, said on Tuesday it will bolster protection for minors amid a flurry of complaints about sexual predators prowling the site and a lawsuit filed on Monday by a teenage girl charging it with negligent security practices.
By next week, members over […]

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June 20th, 2006

Reaction to the lawsuit

Public reacts to MySpace.com lawsuit:
Local reaction, from Austin Texas, about the MySpace lawsuit…
Reaction was mixed Tuesday after reports that MySpace.com is being sued for not doing enough to protect young users from predators.
Some say the girl’s parents should have known better.
Lowell Coleman likes to have coffee at the Spider House and frequently […]

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June 20th, 2006

Florida Sheriff fired over MySpace profile

Local Sheriff’s Deputy Fired Over MySpace Profile:
Here we go again…
For the second day in a row, a Marion County Sheriff’s deputy has been stripped of his badge.
The latest officer was fired over a personal Web site posting, WESH 2 News reported.
Brian Quinn, 26, was only on the job since last December, which made him a […]

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June 20th, 2006

More on Katherine Lester’s legal woes

Michigan teenager involved in Web romance charged with being a runaway:
She’s not being criminally charged but this article clarifies some things regarding Katherine Lester…
DETROIT — Authorities have filed a runaway juvenile petition against a Michigan teenager who flew to the Middle East to be with a man she met on the MySpace.com social networking Internet […]

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June 20th, 2006

Mr. A Reports VIII

Mr. A brings us some goodies today.
First we have the MySpace profile of Pete Solis. He is at the heart of the MySpace lawsuit controversy as he was the one accused of assaulting the 14-year-old girl.
Mr. A also brings us the profile of one Darren Mack. Otherwise known as the Reno Sniper.
Mr. A. The detergent […]

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June 19th, 2006

Katherine Lester’s parents use courts to keep her home

Tuscola County teen’s family trying to keep her home:
Remember when I posted the article that said Katherine Letser’s parents could use the courts to prevent her from running away again? It seems that’s what they’re doing…
TUSCOLA COUNTY (WJRT) - (06/19/06)–The family of a Tuscola County teen is making an attempt to keep her home. Katherine […]

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June 19th, 2006

$30M MySpace lawsuit

Teenager and her mother sue MySpace.com for $30 million:
A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a Buda man she met on MySpace.com sued the popular Internet social networking site Monday for $30 million, claiming it fails to protect minors from adult sexual predators.
The lawsuit claims the Web site does not […]

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June 19th, 2006

Facebook Nudie-Pic Scam

Brooklyn Student Accused of Facebook.com Coed Nudie-Pic Scam:
NEW YORK � A 20-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., man has been using the popular college-community Web site Facebook.com to con and extort coeds around the country, forcing them to turn over nude pictures of themselves and give him online companionship, officials said.
“Students think that because they’re on a […]

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June 17th, 2006

Accused killer on the run still uses MySpace

Accused Killer’s MySpace Web page Details Obsessions with Guns:
The MySpace page talks about a young man’s obsession with guns. After FOX Carolina alerted Easley Police to the website, it agreed that the web page does belongs to the man accused of shooting and killing the owner of a pawn shop.
FOX Carolina’s Jamie Guirola reports, […]

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June 16th, 2006

Trench Reports II

Just some shout outs.
BelchSpeak has his take on the Katherine Lester situation.
Tech Crunch brings us the story of MySpace shuting down SingleStat.us, which seemed kind of stalkerish to me anyway.
Steve Huff has an article at Crime Library about missing mother Deidre Harm and how police are using her MySpace to help find her.
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June 15th, 2006

Florida man robbed by fake MySpace friend

Man Robbed by Teen Girls, Thought He was Meeting MySpace Friend:
A Jacksonville man says he was duped and robbed by two girls after attempting to meet with a woman he met on the internet.
The victim says he chatted online with a woman, known on her MySpace.com profile as �Natalia�, for two weeks before deciding […]

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June 15th, 2006

What Katherine Lester’s parents could do

Parents may need court to rein in MySpace teen:
I found this to be an interesting article from the Detroit Free Press about what recouse Katherine Lester’s parents could have in keeping her from running away again…
Technically, Katherine Lester’s parents can prohibit her from reuniting with a Middle Eastern man she met on an Internet site. […]

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