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MySpace Agrees to Share Sex Offender Data

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-so-anonymous dept.

mikesd81 writes "The Seattle Times is reporting that MySpace will be providing a number of state attorney generals with data on registered sex offenders who use their site. Attorney generals from eight states demanded last week that the company provide data on how many registered sex offenders are using the site and where they live. MySpace obtained the data from Sentinel Tech Holding Corp., which the company partnered with in December to build a database with information on sex offenders. Attorneys general in North Carolina, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania asked for the Sentinel data last week."

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  1. Re:Call me an idiot... by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    and even if they do, is it likely that sex offenders do too? Everything on the internet is true and accurate. Honestly. It really is. On the internet, I mean ... in real life, I'm tall, thin and good looking.
  2. Re:Bullshit. by realisticradical · · Score: 2, Funny

    In fact you basically have to check ID every time you fuck someone who looks young now, because "she told me she was 18" is not a defense even if you have her statement on tape.

    So, after you ask for verbal consent for sex on tape, do the women usually stick around?
  3. Re:Call me an idiot... by ergean · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I know where the "ASL" people have gone.

  4. Re:Call me an idiot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    story of a teenage boy who had sex with a teenage girl a year younger than him and became a "convicted sex offender".
    Well, good for the cops. IMO, both of them should have been sex offenders. We were not created to be beings of just lust. These kids need to learn their lesson(s). Sex before marriage == death in hell.
  5. Won't someone think of the children? by caffiend2049 · · Score: 2, Funny

    er....well...I guess that would be a problem in this case.
    well then...."won't someone please not think of the children?"

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    Pandering to the lowest common denominator would be less frequent if more people were prime numbers.
  6. Re:Call me an idiot... by SageMusings · · Score: 2, Funny

    "in real life, I'm tall, thin and good looking."

    You, too?

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    -- Posted from my parent's basement