This is now a reality. I know of at least one person whose profile has already been deleted from MySpace despite the fact that the incident in question occurred over ten years ago when he was a young boy. Nine times out of ten I find the ACLU to be too liberal and I seldom am fully on board with their positions but I have to say that I agree with their stance that such a ban shouldn't apply to all registered sex offenders on MySpace. There should be some degree of reasonableness in the application of the principle.

And on a different note, shouldn't we be more worried about the ones that use artificial personal data when creating their profiles? People who do such will be much harder to flush out and are arguably more dangerous because they've learned to stay under the radar.

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