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MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-if-but-when dept.

gbulmash writes "In its eagerness to clear sex offenders off its site and publish their identities, MySpace identified an innocent woman as a sex offender. She shares a name and birth month with a sex offender who lives in a neighboring state and that was apparently enough to get MySpace to wrongly brand her and completely ignore her protests."

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  1. Meh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    MySpace is so 2004.

  2. myspace by flynt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doesn't having a MySpace account make you a suspected sex offender, ipso facto?

  3. Jumping to conclusions by rehtonAesoohC · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now be honest, how many people saw "MySpace," "woman," and "sex" and clicked the link right away?

  4. Re:It's a good thing, then... by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe someone needs to be..oh I don't know..tried before a judge and their peers before being branded guilty of a crime? I just thinking off the wall here...
    That thar sounds like terrorist talk to me! Why do you hate America so much?
    --
    Similar to the upcoming US election results
  5. Sex Offenders... by Kaenneth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apperently, I grew up next door to a child molester.

    However, I didn't know this until I was an adult. He apperently molested 30-40 boys in the neighborhood, but not me.

    I was right next door, but I was never chosen, what was wrong with me? Why didn't he choose me? being neglected was a heavy blow to my self esteem.