Massachusetts Attorney General calls on MySpace Suggests raising minimum age to 18 Earlier this week, Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly called on popular teen social networking Web site MySpace.com to strengthen protection of children against sexual predators, including raising the minimum age for users to 18 from 14. 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. "MySpace has not taken sufficient steps to ensure that the MySpace Web site is a safe place for minors," said Reilly in a letter to MySpace.
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| Useless Honestly, I think this will do very little. Kids under the age of any age limit will get it no matter what since there's no way to verify a users age. A 12 year old can just change the birthday year to 1988 or something like that instead and get in. The only way to stop MySpace is to make it "uncool." Until then, politicians will try anything to make them look like they can do something about this.
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|  | | | Re: Useless And the only way to make it "uncool" is to have govt officials and kids parents using it. | |
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| |  johnny_tPremium
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Palo Alto, CA | & what is wrong with the minimum age being 16? Which is what I believe it was before. Its the fact that a 13 y/o abused the my space TOS/AOS/SR. Not My Spaces fault in anyway. Parents should monitor what there middle-schoolers do online. | |
| | | | | Re: Useless said by johnny_t:& what is wrong with the minimum age being 16? Which is what I believe it was before. Its the fact that a 13 y/o abused the my space TOS/AOS/SR. Not My Spaces fault in anyway. Parents should monitor what there middle-schoolers do online. Kids will find a way. No matter what you do, no matter what you say, they will find a way. | |
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| Re: Useless said by moonpuppy:said by johnny_t:& what is wrong with the minimum age being 16? Which is what I believe it was before. Its the fact that a 13 y/o abused the my space TOS/AOS/SR. Not My Spaces fault in anyway. Parents should monitor what there middle-schoolers do online. Kids will find a way. No matter what you do, no matter what you say, they will find a way. That doesn't mean that we should make laws because parents can't raise their children and teach em some responsibility. teach your kids that the more info they put on there the easier it is to be stalked, and even venture to google your kids names and show them just how easy it is to find people. Hell, I found someone 2 weeks ago who I hadn't contacted in years, but I found their email address from 4 years ago, it linked up to a livejournal, which linked to a newer livejournal, which linked to the current myspace of that individual, which listed where this person works, who they're in a relationship with, and of course info about their circle of friends. Took me all of 10 minutes to find all this stuff.
Teach your kids how easy it is, and they'll be far more cautious with their information. Pamper them and baby them, and they'll have no clue how the real world works. They wanna act like big kids - they need to see reality.
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| | | | | | | Re: Useless said by tiger72:That doesn't mean that we should make laws because parents can't raise their children and teach em some responsibility. teach your kids that the more info they put on there the easier it is to be stalked, and even venture to google your kids names and show them just how easy it is to find people. Hell, I found someone 2 weeks ago who I hadn't contacted in years, but I found their email address from 4 years ago, it linked up to a livejournal, which linked to a newer livejournal, which linked to the current myspace of that individual, which listed where this person works, who they're in a relationship with, and of course info about their circle of friends. Took me all of 10 minutes to find all this stuff. Teach your kids how easy it is, and they'll be far more cautious with their information. Pamper them and baby them, and they'll have no clue how the real world works. They wanna act like big kids - they need to see reality. Welcome to the information age.
Too many kids have been given a free pass when it comes to technology only because the parents are naive or unaware.
This law will do NOTHING but open other avenues for kids. Started off with simple webpages, then IM clients, now livejournal and myspace.
I am no fan of the government telling me how to raise my kids. Parents to take a lot more responsibility when it comes to raising their children. | |
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| | | said by Straphanger:Honestly, I think this will do very little. Kids under the age of any age limit will get it no matter what since there's no way to verify a users age... Someone actually recognizes this! This age requirement is completely laughable by someone who clearly does not now how this site or others similar to (and the users of which) operate. Considering a good majority of their users I believe are already listed as being 18+ years old.
If he had really been into stopping this he would have researched and/or made the following requirements (among others):
•Push for parents to watch their child's internet access more closely. (Again, this is pretty laughable since I know so many parents who could really care less)
•Require the operators of MySpace.com (News Corp.) to create an internal group of moderators and have them begin scanning profiles which have statements like "I'm really X years old", etc and flagging them for review. This group would then attempt to confirm the age and reset the user's birthday to reflect that.
•Disallow open review of users' profiles by non-members.
•Disallow members who are 18+ to view and/or add as a friend an underage member's profile either by default or before the underage user gives permission to.
•Allow a parent to create a profile and moderate an underage user's account. This is probably a much less likely option.
These are just a few options that I, personally, and as a web developer, would accept. I am sure others could come up with more good ideas.
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| | | | Another idiot in office wants to protect kids against their parents lack of supervision!
Honestly, I haven't seen ANY objectionable material on MySpace. I even have one. Only probably a few hundred sexual predators this moron, and government in general, failed to put away for life, hanging by the Kahunas, exist on MySpace.
Why not Life for sexual predators mandatory in all states?
That would solve more problems than anything.
MySpace actively enforces inappropriate conduct. Post a porno and Wham!, you're account is closed. Post filthy languge, same thing.
I guess Yahoo Groups, Google Groops, and all search engines should only be used by 18 or older too. Porn and "objectionable material" can be found there far more easily! | |
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1 edit | Ok so here's the rub with his dumb suggestion.
If you raise the age to 18, then any pedophile has an immediate "out".
Well the age to be on the site is 18, so I thought I was meeting an 18 year old. How was I to know s/he was really only 14? It's myspace's fault."
Pedo walks, myspace gets sued by the parents and the pedo and the AG....ta da... | |
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Palo Alto, CA | Re: Useless said by AnonProxy:Ok so here's the rub with his dumb suggestion. If you raise the age to 18, then any pedophile has an immediate "out". Well the age to be on the site is 18, so I thought I was meeting an 18 year old. How was I to know s/he was really only 14? It's myspace's fault." Pedo walks, myspace gets sued by the parents and the pedo and the AG....ta da... Great point. That would justify any pedophile as all he would need to do is claim I thought she was 18+  | |
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Corona, CA | It's the parents' job, not Myspace Why not ban internet access to anyone under 18 with that lame logic? Even if Reilly talked Myspace into this stupid idea AND Myspace was somehow able to enforce it, how long before kids under 18 just move onto the next .COM? Before Myspace, it was AOL and after Myspcace it would be something else.
IOW, raising the age isn't a solution. Putting sexual predators away for life as many are found to be repeat offenders would be a better start. | |
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| Re: It's the parents' job, not Myspace said by oliphant:IOW, raising the age isn't a solution. Putting sexual predators away for life as many are found to be repeat offenders would be a better start. Agreed, besides ... resticting a teen site from teens kinda defeats the purpose, eh?
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1 edit | Re: It's the parents' job, not Myspace That would require logic which is forbidden in politics, even in the AG's office LOL. | |
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|  pb5kCan't TriforcePremium
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Glendale, AZ | Agreed. As much as a sewer as MeatSpace has proven to be, it is a success (in that it is used by lots of young people with disposable incomes and is a valuable advertising target) and many businesses want to be the next Myspace...so I expect we'll be seeing more Myspace clones in the future.
This is a political move to make it look like he's being "proactive" about "protecting our kids" from them evil internets. 
Don't punish the technology, don't punish legitimate users...punish the criminals who use the technology illegally. | |
| | |  N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
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kudos:1 | Re: It's the parents' job, not Myspace "MeatSpace"
Funny one, never heard that before.....
Probably gonna steal that one from you.
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| | | | | | Re: It's the parents' job, not Myspace I've heard of MeatSpace to refer to real life. So it seems strange to refer to MySpace as such. | |
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| | | More so get some responsible parents who actually give a crap about their kids.
Simple version (Tom will think of this next).
If a kid meets a pedo online and is raped or molested, put the parent in jail along with the Pedo.
The pedo for being just that. The parent for not caring enough to make sure their kid isn't doing something stupid. | |
| | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | I couldn't agree more!
First off, there needs to be NO MORE STUPID LAWS ON THE BOOKS! THEY ARE A WASTE OF TIME! Parents need to start being parents. If they can figure out how to make a baby, they should be able to figure out how to raise them, and watch them too without our law makers having to raise the kids in this nation.
Aren't we fighting some wars right now? Don't we have an energy problem going on (mostly because of the lack of caring years ago when it should have been dealt with?)
Why is it MySpace? Before, it was Geo Cities/Yahoo!.. then there are the MSN spaces... hell, there are plenty of meeting places on line.
Here's another deal... when a kid gets napped by a sexual predator, why not punish the parents as well when they leave a computer in the kids bedroom, or don't take an active role in the child's use of that computer on the internet? If the internet is enabling child predators and it is inherently dangerous to kids, wouldn't it be the same thing as leaving alcohol in the house for kids to drink them self to death? Or a gun in the house?
Yes, I bring up the gun analogy because it is valid here. If a loaded unprotected gun can kill a child and a kid on the internet unattended or monitored can be snatched and ultimately raped and killed, then the analogy is very much the same.
Maybe it's time to start holding the parents to a different level as being enablers to this problem and stop holding them as victims when their children take up 2 weeks of Fox News air time. Maybe THEN parents will stop depending on everyone else to watch out for their kids, and MAYBE, just MAYBE parents will learn how to control their kids better.
When a kid gets on the internet alone, they are basically out in the middle of the real world all alone too. Would you let your 12 year old child go to the mall all alone? Why would you put a computer in the bedroom, or allow them to get on-line unattended?
Sorry for the rant, but our law makers have a strong habit of trying to fix the wrong areas of problems. Why don't they go after the parents? Because they cast votes in elections and it's not a politically correct way to handle the problem correctly. | |
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NYC Metro | MySpace Go take a look at the site. There are kids who are CLEARLY 10, 11, 12 years old posting that they are 14 to get onto the website. The age prior was 16 to register, they lowered it I guess. These "age limits" don't don anything, they just make MySpace look nice to the courts.
I don't understand why pop culture has to go on crusades against things kids do. If they want to have fun, it's ALWAYS wrong. Kids are doing things A LOT worse than going on a website and talking to friends then you think. And SINCE WHEN has the current generation NOT been exposed to internet chat rooms / forums / etc? They GREW UP the majority of their lives with computers in their daily life.
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kudos:1 | So the kids just move to "paedophile.com" ... Typically adult response. But kids need an outlet, too. It's a matter of proper administration and moderation, not jumping to an extreme. MySpace isn't evil, it's subject, like all things in life, to abuse. Media attention's been directed at them, and there's a fallacious perception that they're "the" paedophile site of choice. That's probably not true. Truth told, I've reviewed a few of the "personal homepages" on my ISP's sites over the years, and found a lot of very questionable sharings of info.
The idiotic political solution is to focus on one site, and it's a legitimate site, not a shady edge of the internet site... then proclaim a major problem "solved". Nonsense. The kids will go elsewhere, where there's no real administration. The creeps will follow.
The answer is better moderation and administration. This sounds a lot like saying, "hell, that playground on 115th is on the news every night, a real hellhole for perverts... let's close it to kids, and we have the pervert problem solved." Next week, the playground on 82nd is a hellhole... so... we close all the playgrounds, make 'em adults only? Doh. Rather unbright idea.
We get a playground monitor at 115th... we start patrolling for perverts. Most importantly, we educate the kids as to what to watch for. We "moderate" --- anybody ever thought about the semantics of that word? "moderated". Not censored, not left flying in the wind... "moderated". I have no idea what MS's moderation policy is, granted, but kids will use the internet, will have homepages, will chat about their concerns and interests, somewhere ... if you close off one reputable channel, trust me, they'll find another and (perhaps) less reputable channel.
Hell... take it to the logical extreme... let's ban everybody under 18 from the internet ... problem solved. (not, but I digress). Let's, rather, educate and moderate.
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| | | | Re: So the kids just move to "paedophile.com" ... Kids do need an outlet and are willing to lie and seek out adults (and lie to them about their age) to get it. Many times, adults become ensnared by kids who say they're in their twenties, but who haven't hit puberty yet, which gets the adult jailed every time. Kids lie whether you believe it or not and there's no consequenses for their actions, which actually fuels the problem. | |
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Ottawa, ON | Re: So the kids just move to "paedophile.com" ... when in doubt, ask to see photo id.
it's kept me outta jail so far. | |
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join:2000-05-11 | I suspect there has been more child molestation connected with New York's Central Park (or even Boston Common if you want to keep it in MA) than Myspace. Or any number of public and private schools (let's not even look at the Catholic church's issues in this regard). Where is that political outcry?
There is a very effective tool found on every computer ever made which completely "protects the children". It's the power switch. Parents need to learn how to use it more effectively.
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| | |  ShootToThrilTell The TruthPremium
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Sherman Oaks, CA | Re: So the kids just move to "paedophile.com" ... I would have gone for the Internet access while letting them use the computer for educational apps | |
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| | | | Article said a 13 year old,myspace has a 14 year old age limit.So,right there the age limit did not work. | |
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| | Myspace is for the toilet Wow, yeah lets raise the limit to 18 so the 12, 13 year olds can just claim they are 18. What a solution. Unless they are going to start requiring a credit card for age verification, that won't work. If they do require a credit card verification, they won't get any sign ups.
MySpace is junk anyway, place just needs to get nuked..nothing good comes out of there except for EMOs, Fatties, Attention Whores, Underage users posing as being older, and sexual predators. Wow, what a AWESOME site.
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| | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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1 edit | said by paranoidxe:MySpace is junk anyway, place just needs to get nuked..nothing good comes out of there except for EMOs, Fatties, Attention Whores, Underage users posing as being older, and sexual predators. Wow, what a AWESOME site. You were making a good point until you got this far. If something is not for you, don't use it. I know many people on MySpace. (since it's the latest fad, everyone's bound to use it) How can you say that it's full of fatties, attention whores, etc... Hell, you just described about every political blogger on the internet as well as about 60% of the general internet... why not shut those sites down as well? And then ban Yahoo! MSN Messenger, and AOL/AIM? They're all filled with fatties, attention whores, etc..
Bottom line, you were right when you said that raising the age won't work. Hell, adding a credit card system won't work either.. kids have credit cards these days.. and all they do is verify that the card is valid using a temporary hold for $1.00.. it would never hit the bank statement, so that's out too.
How to fix the problem? Hold the parents accountable to raising their parents.
I don't much care for religious websites that bash homosexuals or other faiths or groups in our country.. I'd say they are AWESOME sites too.. not.. but I don't think they need to go because I don't agree with them.
We can't pick and choose what sites choose to do when they aren't breaking the law.. and My Space isn't breaking any law.. these idiot predators are the ones breaking the laws... and i might add that the parents of these victim children are a bit negligent as well.
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| | | | | Re: Myspace is for the toilet 60,000,000 people can't be wrong (can't remember what commercial this is a parody of). | |
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| | because age restrictions work well already "raising the minimum age for users to 18 from 14. 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..."
Yes, clearly having online age restrictions works great already so all we have to do is increase the age and everyone will fall in line. | |
|  rawgerzThe hell was that?Premium
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Grove City, PA | time to clean up myspace myspace seriously has some eyesores. like for one every IDIOT can put as many pictures, gif's, streaming crap, ect. on as they want.. making it slow, unusable, UNbearable, and just stupid
From the fake listings to get you to buy porn, to the stupid girls that think people actually care what happened in they're day, it could all really be improved upon
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| | | . I agree with all that you say but if teens like it this way, why mess with it?
I dont see why this should affect myspace, its not their problem that this predators use their service for their things. Even if myspace was shutdown, will the predators stop? No. Useless. | |
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1 edit | ... What a wonderful solution that relies on the user's honesty.
This shall never work and never will.
I seriously dislike myspace and everytime someone asks me why I don't use myspace because I seriously find it retarded on so many levels.
Also parents should take more responsibility for there children instead of letting the system take care of them for you. In short parents like this piss me off.
Also get it through your thick skulls that myspace is not the only way people can communicate. I remember a long time ago AOL used to be the problem with AOL chatrooms. Here the same problem arises a few year's later, different system same problem.
In the end the problem is the parents themselves. But another problem bugs me on why sexual predators are even allowed to use a computer in the first place.
Teens are also to blame for posting pictures of them naked and other matters. They like to slut around wearing little skirts and then you see them on the 5 o clock news crying because they got raped.
Maybe it has never occured to them that they stand out like a red flag for sexual predators. | |
|  ssj4androidRedefining Reality
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Wyoming, MI | All these people being arrested... Did they really do anything wrong? Or was it the kids? It seems these news articles are quick to blame the adults. I want to here their side of the story. | |
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1 edit | Tom is an A$$Hat idiot and one of the worst AG's ever. Look people, it's an election year for him (he's running for Gov of MA).
Considering the crappy job he's done in MA so far...I wouldn't take his advice on anything.
In the end you have to ask yourself, do you want the AG of MA acting as the Internet police? Or should the parents of children monitor what they do?
If they boost the age from 14 to 18, 21 or whatever what's the enforcement? what's the punishment? Is the MA AG going to fine myspace if there are children on it under 18?
It's more work and another lame attempt by Tom to push though a "feel good and do nothing" measure to get his name in the press.
He has no idea how the technology works, what the age disclaimer is for and what the Internet is even about. | |
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1 edit | Here's another laugh at this a$$hat "An adult can register as a minor member and use that profile to seek access to the profiles of countless underage members," he said in a statement.
Ok so really the site should require that you be UNDER the age of 18 then...because it seems the REAL problem is the pedos who "downgrade" their age to attract kids.
But wait no...if they upgrade the site to 18 only, then everyone will lie, the pedos will say they are 18 and the kids will say they are 18 and automatically everyone is an 18 year old. Good old Tom, too dumb to actually come up with an effective solution to anything. | |
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You fill in the blank and make it so it sounds right and relieves the parents of their responsibility and says allot but does nothing. The premise is you'll get the votes.
If you tell them it's their fault or that they are Bad parents No vote for you.
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| | | BAN MYSPACE! Congress needs to ban myspace forever! Myspace is just a front for ugly people. What the hell ever happened to going outside and introducing yourself to new people!? | |
| | |  atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
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College Station, TX | Re: Dateline NBC Those videos of them chasing the perverts down is funny. They get exactly what they deserve for praying on children. They need to be executed. | |
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| | Useless legislation to make government bigger If the penalties are to be raised then there needs to be a clear definition of what child molestation is. These days guys that are 17-18 years old and still in high school have reason to fear having a relationship with someone 15-16 (lower classmen). So does that make said person a pedophile? Yes no it is an open ended question. Before you start the witch hunts you gotta take a step back and consider what is really wrong and what you believe is wrong because society has told you. One glance at human history and you will see it is full of contradictions because of paradigm shifts in society not because of any kind of ethical enlightenment. | |
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| This Idiot is trying to make hay for his race for governor O'reilly is a moron. He's just trying to revive his campaign for governor here in Massachusetts. Another politician who doesn't have a clue about technology, computers etc. The obvious answer to the problem of kids getting into trouble on MySpace is for the kids freakin' parents to do their jobs and be a parent. That simple. | |
|  Brat75I remember 8-tracks
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Kent, WA | My 2 bux. Ok.
Lets say that MySpace makes the rule to be 18 or over before entering and before posting.
Who is responsible for checking that age? Webbys or users? With name & pw as logins/security, where the hell does a number creep into that?
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Let's also say that MySpace is the one responsible for content, and controlling access to the content. How?
We dont have mass produced login identifiers that can check your age/ name/ eligibility. Biomechanics arent exactly cheap.
MySpace would almost HAVE to goto a pay per account version, and a pay per view. If they were to be responsible for the content and the access, they'd have to set aside manpower/hours to check thru it, and keep a good eye on the users. That translates to money.
Lets say that INSTEAD of making My Space the responsible one, the government creates a law stating "We will prosecute anyone over the age of 18 with the intent of sexual encounter with a person under the age of 18."
Uhm, right there you've got another money problem. If police/govt are to go thru it, it costs money. I know cops are already doing this, but those officers have an accounted for budget from a grant. Mostly.
Then also, if a law anywhere close to that wording comes up, ACLU and Liberty groups will step in.
My points here are that:
It's gonna cost money.
Government is already so far behind it isnt funny, why give them ANOTHER duty?
It's gonna cost money.
Humans are responsible for each action that they take. Step by step, day by day.
Teach the users. Preach the users. Keep doing stings and bust the SOBs.
Hell, before computers, I did some pretty stupid things. Like walking alone at nite thru a very dodgy neighborhood. By hitching with strangers. By being alone in strange places.
How did I learn....by doing it and having somehting happen.
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| | | | Re: My 2 bux. Whos gotta really step up is the owner everybody knows who hes is thats all i have to say. | |
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|  sapoCruising Down Memory LanePremium
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kudos:1 | Either some sort of State ID or Credit Card Verification.
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1 edit | SURE that will work Lets look at the Facts
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Earlier this week, Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly called on popular teen social networking Web site MySpace.com to strengthen protection of children against sexual predators, including raising the minimum age for users to 18 from ***14***. 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.
Sure that will WORK!! Its already working now cause 13 years olds are on it.....wait....
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| | | Wow, check this guy out... "In January 2006, Reilly came under fire for allegedly impeding an investigation into an October 2005 automobile crash which left two Southborough, Massachusetts teens dead, and another teen injured. Reilly admitted publicly that he advised the Worcester County District Attorney that he did not have to give local police a toxicology report showing the blood-alcohol level of the teens. Reilly is a friend of the teens' father and has accepted campaign contributions from him." - from wikipedia (although keep in mind this is not always the best source of info)
Even then this is still pretty screwy.
"Reilly was arrested for public drunkenness when he was 20."
Sounds like a real go getter... While I did pull these out of context he still made the choices either way.
How this guy manages to stay in his position is beyond me. These are the types of un-ethical people who need to be booted out of their offices. (I use the first example more than the 2nd for this, as many people get intoxicated before they are 21) Assuming these allegations are true; I had no idea.
This basically preys on the parents' ideas that somehow by adding an age check that the possibility of their children getting into some kind of trouble with 'creepy' people. I have no problems admitting I use myspace. It has helped me keep in touch with some family members of my age group as well as friends in other states. In my experience of using Myspace it has been pretty clean...up until these last few months. It seems that it is getting over run with younger people each month. It used to be only the 20 something crowd. Now its trickling down to the 19s, 18s, etc. With this comes all the other garbage associated with kids still in HS. I've also seen an influx of porn advertisers coming in now that the younger crowd is coming. Usually they mask as some hot looking woman, but on their profile they've got links to porn sites or scammer sites. Which usually get reported anyways. But before then you've got a bunch of moron guys who think its really some hot chick. When in reality its the advertiser for the porn firm putting pics up of the girls they tape/photo.
I suppose for now the only haven for college students is Facebook. And from what I've read not for long. | |
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