MySpace: The Home of 29,000 Sex Offenders

The result being four times larger than Myspace predicted earlier in May, an upsetting 29,000 sex offenders have been proven to be using the website ‘Myspace’. What’s even more worrying, is that these 29,000 are only the ones that used their real names.

“[The 29,000] includes just the predators who signed up using their real names and not the ones who failed to register or used fake names,” said Cooper in a statement. Roy Cooper, who is one of eight state attorney generals, asked MySpace in May to turn over the names of users who are registered sex offenders.

Unsurprisingly, Myspace did resist to this decision at first, defending the rights of their users and throwing a myriad of privacy statements back, but finally were made to do so.

Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer of MySpace, said in a statement that he’s: “pleased that we’ve successfully identified and removed registered sex offenders from our site and hope that other social networking sites follow our lead.”

Removing sex offenders from a social networking site was never a possibility, and always a certainty, but are we taking it too far by invading innosant people’s privacy?

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