Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space

Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space
Mark Rasch, 2007-05-23

It has recently been reported that Attorney’s General’s from about a dozen U.S. States, including Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Maryland, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania have demanded that News Corporation’s social networking site MySpace voluntarily deliver to the AG’s a list of all sex offenders who have registered for or used the MySpace social networking service.

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Lovely doublespead 2007-05-23
Anonymous

I just love this:

Attorney?s General?s from about a dozen U.S. States (...) have demanded that News Corporation?s social networking site MySpace voluntarily deliver to the AG?s a list (...)

_Demanded_ that they _voluntarily_ deliver it.

You'd think someone at one of these AG's offices might...

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Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-05-23
Anonymous (2 replies)

It?s funny how the laws only apply to certain people. If this is such a big issue, why don't they just give pedophiles life-sentences? The laws are designed to oppress. By their very nature they put people at greater risk, not less.

Giving up those records would do nothing but give people a ...

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Re: Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-06-11
Anonymous

Actually, sexual predation has a really high rate of recidivism (40% commit another sexual offense within first year of release, it goes up for 3 years. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm). You can't cure a person of this. Most will continue to do it. To them it's how they have sex. You can't ...

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Re: Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2008-02-28
Anonymous

iagree with you...

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Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-05-23
Ex-offender

Nice story. We need to educate ourselves and our kids so that this kind of thing doesn't happen to us or them. But breaking the law to enforce a law is dubious at best. At least if an angry parent was to take the law into their own hands, it would be understandable. To institutionalize illegal p...

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Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-05-24
Anonymous (1 replies)

I applaud MySpace for sticking to their guns and not being bullied by the AGs. I think the AGs prove the point by acting they way they did when MySpace simply asked them to follow the appropriate process.

As for privacy law:

". . .the provider reasonably believes that an emergency involving...

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Re: Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-09-18
Anonymous

OK BUT IF CAN THEY LET ME ON MYSPACE CUZ IT AINT HURTIN NOBODY AND PLUS ITS FUN AND TOO TALK TO OTHER PEOPLE
SO CAN U TALK TO THE SCHOOL FOR WE CAN GET ON MYSPACE IN SCHOOL...

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Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-05-24
Tony

That is an interesting thought. I wonder if there is a way to get an ISP/Yahoo to go along with this....Such as, let them know you are going to pull this off, then tell the media that the ISP/Yahoo isn't providing the info. When asked why you think it would, make the comment "well, it worked for the...

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Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-05-26
DeMartian

The public in general needs to be trained about the dangers of social networking. So many people put their entire personal lives online for everyone to see and think nothing of it.

Parents need to do more to protect their children. There is no way that I would let my minor children out of my si...

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Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-06-28
Heather

Some very high profile celebrities and musicians are responsible for much of the deception and stalking on myspace. The AG's office should investigate and trace the suspecious profiles on myspace. They would be quite surprised to find out the celebrities responsible for much of the disguisting and i...

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