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MA Attorney General Seeks Myspace Changes
kaufmanmoore writes "Massachusetts' Attorney General Tom Reilly is saying that Myspace is not doing enough to protect children from sexual predators and is calling for action. The biggest proposal is to change the minimum age from 14 to 18 with an age verification system, but also to respond to all reports of inappropriate content within 24 hours and significantly raise the number of staff who review images and content." From the article: "The arrest Tuesday of a 27-year-old man in Connecticut on charges of illegal sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl he met through MySpace underlines the risks of the fast-growing Internet site that boasts about 60 million members."
How about forbidding the horrible web design most of MySpace features? It wasn't cool in 1996 and it isn't cool now. USE DREAMWEAVER AT THE VERY LEAST FOR GODS SAKE!
change the minimum age from 14 to 18
Er, make that 30 million members. If they raise the age to 21, they're screwed.
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Couldn't he have insisted those losers get more sensible haircuts instead? Honestly I can't sleep at night because of that site.
Give me good ratings or I will close down the internet.
Just for, uhm, posterity, what web forums might these be?
Heck, they might decide it's not really worth the trouble and just find some older kids to drink and smoke weed with. Like the other 154% of teenagers.
I propose covering all objects with Nerf and sealing all children with bubblewrap until their 18th birthday. Anything less may result in a dangerous owie or booboo.
Only in this way can we ensure the next generation is fully ready for the challenges of adulthood.
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...Only outlaws will have 13-year-olds?
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Nothing, you're still ugly. :P
Choice cuts from a personal favourite of mine, The Paedo-Finder General (a loose parody of the witchfinder general).
The Paedofinder General kills a lifeguard watching over bathing children. At one point the lifeguard's hand is obscuring the logo on his Speedo swimming trunks, leaving 'peedo' and thus all the evidence the PFG needs.
The Paedofinder General executes Banjo the "paedo-dog" for licking his owner's face (a child).
The Paedophile General invades the stage of a production of Fiddler On the Roof - accusing the teacher who organised it of having 'a list of young children' in his possession (the class register). "By the powers invested in me by a text vote on Sky News, I find you guilty of paedophilia."
The Paedophile General performs 'Fire' at a School-night themed disco and setting light to all the innocent dancers in attendance. "You've been molesting this little girl." "She's 43, she's from accounts." "She looks 12 and that's what counts."
The Paedofinder General executes two gay men he spots choosing fabrics. "All gays are paedophiles," he declares. "It is written in stone. On the wall behind the bus station. Where I wrote it."
The Paedofinder General burning to death the teacher who inadvertantly included the words Townsend, Glitter and King when he rewrote the school's Nativity Play ("I teach PE," the teacher pleaded. "Dophilia," the PFG added.).
The Paedofinder-General is working at Snippy Snaps where he confronts the mother who comes to pick up photos of her naked baby. "You imprisoned a naked child in your stomach for your own sick pleasure," she is told before being executed.
Made me laugh anyway.
Sir, you have single handedly written the clearest, most insightful and logical post I've ever seen on Slashdot. So I ask, what are you doing here? ;-)
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Speak for yourself, that cat is HOT!
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Bah Humbug!