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29,000 Sex Offenders Found On MySpace
Company Trying To Remove Convicts From 180M Profiles

POSTED: 2:40 pm EDT July 24, 2007

RALEIGH, N.C. -- MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site, more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, North Carolina officials said Tuesday.

North Carolina's Roy Cooper is one of several attorneys general who recently demanded the News Corp.-owned Web site provide data on how many registered sex offenders were using the site, along with information about where they live.

After initially withholding the information, citing federal privacy laws, MySpace began sharing the information in May after the states filed formal legal requests.

At the time, MySpace said it had already used a database it helped create to remove about 7,000 profiles of sex offenders, out of a total of about 180 million profiles on the site.

Two MySpace spokeswomen did not immediately return calls seeking comment Tuesday.

Cooper is pushing for legislation that would require children to receive parental permission before creating social networking profiles and require the Web sites to enact procedures for verifying the parents' identity and age.
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7/24/075:56 PM

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David L.Post Master

I take it you are obsessed with sex offenders?

~*~Freebird~*~Hall of Famer

Myspace has become a social spot, just about everybody has a myspace account.

interventorPost Master

Fool's names and fool's faces are often found on myspaces.

FoshaBenHall of Famer

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Originally posted by David L.:
I take it you are obsessed with sex offenders?

lol... reminds me of my great-grandmother who used to scan the obituaries everyday to see if anymore of her friends had passed away lately. Maybe the same goes for sex offenders.

mrbradg 2Hall of Famer

Not a surprise. It's a haven for pointless crap. If your going to be on something join facebook. You don't get all that glitter and all the friend requests from big boobed women you don't know every hour.

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