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Teen Sues MySpace Over Sexual Assault
kaufmanmoore writes "A 14-year old is suing myspace for $30 million claiming the site failed to protect her from a 19-year old she met through the site. The suit claims that MySpace doesn't verify a user's identity or age and doesn't do enough to protect users."
Almost as stupid as the "mcdonalds made me fat" case.
I think MySpace should be awarded 30 million for doing a public service by slowly eradicating slutty little morons through destroying their livelihood. Kudos, Tom! You are most definitely my "Friend".
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I mean, isn't ANYTHING justified if it protects children from the sexual predators we all know run the internets?
Surely websites should not be allowed to let people communicate anonymously, because these people might be pedophiles! Anonymity only helps criminals and perverts!
Nothing is more important than making things safe for kids. Everyone who disagrees probably has kiddie porn on their harddrive.
Do YOU disagree? hmmm?
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
"Teen, mom sue MySpace.com for $30 million" as they titled it in http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories /local/06/20myspace.html
Wait, a teen, mum that is 14 years old? Is this an eats, shoots, and leaves punctuation here? 14 years old sues myspace, OR the mum of the 14 years old sues myspace, OR a 14 years old teen mum sues myspace?
If we believe the first paragraph of the article, "A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a Buda man she met on MySpace.com sued the popular social networking site Monday for $30 million, claiming that it fails to protect minors from adult sexual predators." who knows who she should sue for beeing a 14 years old teen mum by now.
Did she perhaps meet someone (the baby father?) from Yahoo or Livejournal when she was 13?
If people are mothers at the age of 14 in a place where the age for the sexual consent is 18, maybe sue her. Or remove the child and take her to custody.
Man, you people are paranoid. WTH is wrong with a country requiring their citizens to carry an ID with them all the time? I've had mine since I was 12, and only *one* time did somebody require me to show it to them.
You're a European. In general, Europeans treat police as a bad joke. They're the "idiots who couldn't get better jobs". The "average" European thinks that police are somehow "beneath" them, that police are basically servants. You can deny this if you want, but I saw it all over Northern Europe. This is despite the fact that European police are easily the least corrupt that I've seen. I've found that the European public is generally hostile to the idea that they should defer to police, that police should be "in charge" and that if an officer tells you to do something you MUST do it. And the police just can't shoot you if you don't do what they say.
This is not the case in the United States. Here, the police are much more corrupt, are much more prone to abuse their authority (authority that European police really don't have) and most important, they see abusing people AS their job. Due to the unions and other factors, police are insulated from accountablity to the public. Example: Imagine if you will a police officer in your town got scared during a traffic stop and decided to shoot an entire family of four in their car (husband, wife, 2 kids), all completely unarmed and innocent. What would happen to him? He would almost certainly be fired and he would probably face serious criminal charges and jail time. In the United States? Absolutely nothing, MAYBE a small reprimand. And such incidents happen almost every day in the US. Consequently, Americans are justifiably wary of giving these people any MORE authority over their lives.
I haven't brought up race yet, but I'd bet money you're white. I seriously doubt the many Muslim immigrants (for example) in Europe share the same rosy view you do of the police.
Frankly, you've gotten soft and trusting. During the run up to WWII one of the great evils of the Nazis was that they required everyone to have identity papers, police could check them at any time, and if you didn't have them "in order" you could be arrested. Why was this evil in 1940 but not evil now?