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May 28th, 2007

Myspace hysteria

MySpace hysteria lets politicians off easy:
This is a great editorial from New England journalist Chris Powell about the recent controversy surrounding MySpace and state attorney generals. He says what I’ve been saying for a while now…
But the politicians might as well seek to outlaw telephones, cars and roads, earlier innovations of “social networking,” which these […]

By Trench -- 1 comment

May 23rd, 2007

What does Australia know that the US doesn’t?

MySpace hands over known sex offenders; how many unknown?:
One of the problems I’ve had with all the blustering from state attorney generals about MySpace is what are the AG’s doing about the predators that haven’t been caught yet? I never see anyone in the American media asking that question yet the Australian media has no […]

By Trench -- 0 comments

May 21st, 2007

MySpace caves to AG’s

MySpace in deal with 8 state attorneys general:
If you haven’t heard by now MySpace has acquiesced to the 8 state attorney generals asking for all the information MySpace has on each state’s sex offenders. Now don’t get me wrong, I have no interest in protecting SO’s. However I do have a problem with politicians putting […]

By Trench -- 5 comments

May 16th, 2007

MySpace refuses AGs’ requests

MySpace won’t release list of sex offenders to states:
In a follow up to my post about 8 attorney generals who have demanded that MySpace give up all their information about sex offenders using their site, MySpace has flatly denied the request.
MySpace’s chief security officer said the company regularly discloses information to law enforcement officials but […]

By Trench -- 7 comments