Clearly this has no chance of working unless sex offenders have to register every e-mail address. For that to work, of course, every company that gives out e-mail addresses would have to require identification and that's something that will never happen. It would also require MySpace itself to require users to sign up using factual information.

I agree with the ACLU that the vast majority of registered sex offenders are regular people who made one stupid mistake and have already paid enough for it. The vast majority of predators on MySpace are not registered offenders and likely won't ever be.

Maybe, just maybe, we should require the users to be smart enough to handle social interaction with complete strangers who are most likely lying about everything they say about themselves. If they aren't smart enough and something terrible happens -- well, sucks to be them.

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