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AOL Monitor Accused of Luring 15-Year-Old for Sex
Amy's Robot writes "According to the AP, an Internet chat room monitor hired by AOL to keep children safe from sexual predators seduced a California girl online and was about to meet her for sex when he was found out by a co-worker, a lawsuit charges. The incident happened 2 years ago, but has become public this week because the lawsuit was just filed by the girl, now 19. She accuses AOL of failing to supervise the employee and of falsely advertising that its online service was safe for children. Who's watching the watchers?"
Original poster: A/S/L?
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Thank you for clarifying those numbers. I was about to start complaining, since I haven't RTFA yet.
I guess that means they need to move to AI bot monitors instead of those silly humans? I mean, if they can make bots in UT2004 that are that good....
I think at some point in this country we are going to have an honest debate about age of consent. In most european countries it varies from 14-17.
We like to maintain this fantasy that our kids are NOT having sex -- but, Ive been in the back rooms, and the level of detachment young people have from sex took me until my late 20's to develop.
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Who's watching the watchers?
Sounds like they are watching each other.
Whoops. Whatever your reasons were, they're irrelevant now.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Yea ... im a capital bonehead :)
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
OMFG what a cockblock that was.
Should you really be talking up a Microsoft app/service and putting down IRC *on Slashdot*? :)
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wanted to have sex with herself
mod me up if you too like out of context quotes!
at least I can admit to my kiddie porn addiction anonymously!
Qui Custodes Custodiat? is probably better translated as "who guards the guardians" than "who watches the watchers"?
I was thinking more along the lines of "Who cleans the janitors?"
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kids will stop having sex and stop getting pregnant if you make it illegal
I didn't have sex until I was 18 because it was Illegal in my state...
*sobs*
Ok, OK! It's really because I was a loser in high school and couldn't get laid if my life depended on it...
There's no place like
It's 14 here in B.C.
Yeah, but times have moved forward a couple of thousand years since B.C. Who cares what the age of consent was back then? I want to know what it is now.
"at least I can admit to my kiddie porn addiction anonymously!"
I hate to break it to you, but those Japanese schoolgirls aren't kiddies.
"Derp de derp."
Wow, it's been a long time since a joke made me want to stab my eyes out. Thanks!
Parents are probably a factor, if not the cause in this case as you claim. But AOL should have at least one employee for every online customer to read their conversations in case something like this comes up. They would then need a second teir of employees set up to watch those employees so that cases such as this are shut down before trouble ensues. I would further suggest 5 additional tiers of protection, a sort of check and balance system against untoward acts. To cap it all off there must be a final line of defense - a "high council" if you will - of people who have proven to be impecably moral, perhaps some of the Catholic Church's best, to oversee the entire operation. Surely then AOL's customer's parents can be confident their children are safeguarded against having to make any decisions for their own well being or god forbid have to take any responsibility for anything that happens in their lives. In this case I hope the parents make out with billions! That'd show 'em!
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sorry yall... I couldn't resist
Libertas in infinitum
Maybe it really shouldn't be legal to do much of anything until you're 29 or so.
Oh yes, delay adulthood to almost fsking age *30.* That'll be a real boon to society. Hows about we just put it off until 40 or 50 to make absolutly sure the little buggers are mature enough? Jesus, this sounds like Logan's Run in reverse.
AOL Monitor Accused of Luring 15-Year-Old for Sex
The incident happened 2 years ago
but has become public this week because the lawsuit was just filed by the girl, now 19
It isn't the seduction, or that it was an AOL monitor that did it. Nope, the biggest story is how she could go from 15 years old to 19 years old in only two years.
Spooky.
Now I need to figure out what she's doing, and do the exact opposite.
http://xkcd.com/386/
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