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29,000 registered sex offender profiles deleted from MySpace
The Associated Press reports that MySpace has found and deleted the profiles of 29,000 users who are registered sex offenders. That's four times the number MySpace officials had released two months ago. While that number might seem high, keep in mind MySpace hosts 180 million profiles.The numbers were released in response to requests from attorneys general of several states.
Of course this is good news and bad. On the one hand, MySpace has deleted these accounts. On the other, users were able to create them in the first place. There's no explanation why the number jumped from 7,000 profiles in May to 29,000 this month.
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Subscribe to commentsNo oneJul 25th 2007 3:05PM
I am so fed up with the burden we place on sex offenders. I am NOT excusing their behavior, but we cannot release them and then expect everyone else to be policing them. If they cannot be rehabilitated, and are still a threat to society, then DO NOT release them.
JonathonJul 25th 2007 3:36PM
I'm confused; wouldn't we want these guys and gals to keep their profiles up so that they can be watched and occasionally questioned to see if there's any violations of parole or sex offender status?
When you delete them and keep them from being honest, and they're really showing predator tendencies, won't they just go create fake profiles?
Why not an optional "I'm An Adult With Extenuating Circumstances, Please Do Not Contact Me Unless You Know Me" badge akin to the privatizing a profile for the under 14 set?
I just don't get the point in continually antagonizing people.
sdsdfghghjJul 26th 2007 9:03AM
Why should a sex offender not have a myspace profile? What has the one thing to do with the other? Huh?
JackJul 26th 2007 9:06AM
Oh Shit! My profile's gone...
KCJul 26th 2007 3:24PM
Why shouldn't sex offenders have MySpace pages?
Sex Offender does not equal pedophile
Sex Offender does not equal predator
Sex Offender does not equal rapist
Sex Offender does not equal sexually active
In a day and age where a 6 year old boy can be named a sex offender for giving his teacher a hug, or you can end up on the registry for peeing in public, the term sex offender has absolutely no functional meaning and the status of 'sex offender' has no direct relation to the other things that people are scared of.
Plus, that Bureau of Justice Statistic that everyone throws out there randomly to support idiotic ideas like banning sex offenders from the Internet and taking down their MySpace pages - you know the one I'm talking about - the whole '1 in 5 kids has received an unwanted sexual solicitation while online' never seems to get explained. That study by the Bureau of Justice found that 75% of those unwanted sexual solicitations were made by PEERS of the children who were also minors and close very close in age. Of the 25% that were adults soliciting minors that study found only 3% of those people ever attempted to arrange a meeting with the minor and of the ones that did absolutely none of the minors ever agreed. So where's the problem? Wheres the epidemic? When in the whole damn continent of North America on average 6 children are murdered by strangers who abducted them I just don't see the boogie man being anything more then the irrational fears overprotective parents who's children are far more likely to be killed by chocking on a spoon then abducted by a stranger. Where's the backlash against spoons?
Sex offenders have the absolute lowest recidivism rates of any class of criminals. The 6 or so people a year (out of a population of half a billion people) who do abduct, rape and kill children are NEVER released from prison when caught and no registry will ever prevent then from doing anything as registries are incapable of preventing a crime from occurring, they merely make apprehension after the fact easier which is little solace to the family of the child who is still very much dead because no registry will ever stop some one who wants to do something from doing it.
Not to mention that over 90% of all cases of child sexual abuse are perpetrated by a relative or trusted family friend and not some entity in cyberspace who children these days another bureau of justice study finds treat those few unwanted sexual solicitations by strangers much the same way the treat pop-up ads - they simply close them, ignore them and go on about their business with absolutely no psychological damage whatsoever.
Between pedophile panic, the war on drugs, and the war on terror it's no wonder why no social problems ever get solved. Everyone's to busy blaming the popular devil of the day and organizing witch hunts to concern themselves with actually looking deeper at an issue and devising solutions that might have the chance of actually working.
For goodness sakes, adult content is easy enough to come by for anyone regardless of age who wants it, sex offenders are the last thing on the list of Internet safety issue that parents should be worried about especially since there has yet to be even one documented case of a child being abducted and killed as a result of a person they met online.
Enough with the fear mongering already, look at the facts, take a realistic view of the risks and stop blaming everything on some designated subclass of people who happen to be disliked.