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The 29,000

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29,000 sex offenders found on MySpace:

It has been confirmed by MySpace that there are in fact 29,000 registered sex offenders on MySpace. My apologies to AG Roy Cooper of North Carolina for saying that he pulled that number out of thin air. Mr. Cooper’s New England counterpart, Connecticut AG Richard Blumenthal, is stating that the number was provided to him by top MySpace officials. MySpace is still declining to comment.

If there are 29,000 registered sex offenders on MySpace that are stupid enough to use their real names, I can only imagine how many are on there that are flying below the radar. Not to mention the predators that are on there that have never been caught.

However, I still don’t think that more legislation is the answer. What is needed is more vigilant parenting. Parents need more education on how to navigate MySpace and how to check up on their kids’ MySpaces.

We can’t allow the government to raise our children.

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6 responses to “The 29,000”

  1. of Oak Avatar
    of Oak

    Who really cares.

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  2. David Avatar
    David

    What’s the total number of users on myspace? What percentage are we looking at?

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  3. Zigs Avatar
    Zigs

    180 million accounts, so were looking at way less than 1%. In other words, this is a veeeeery narrow estimate and probably reflects less than 10% of the actual pedo user base.

    Oh ye brave 29,000 who marched again’ the armies of Myspace and braved the dreaded immortals of ‘News Corp’ to go fourth and proclaim:

    “I touch little boys!”

    Then they got their faces melted with arrows.

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  4. BelchSpeak Avatar
    BelchSpeak

    Myspace does not match SO’s by using names. They use facial recognition software, cross referenced with states sex offender registry to come up with the matches.

    They match a myspace user’s face and location or state with the national database to get a match. Any ambiguous matches are kicked out for manual analysis and evaluation.

    So sex offenders can avoid recognition provided they do not use any registered names, locations, or in some states’ cases, email addresses. And don’t upload any photos of themselves.

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  5. Zigs Avatar
    Zigs

    Yeah but the term photo is subjective, say they go for that emo-kid-in-the-dark look that Myspace rapists love so much. Contrast that with a blurry 200×100 gif mug shot of your favorite pedo from South Carolina and you probably won’t get returned a biometric match, even if said hard to see emo is said blurry pedo.

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  6. bea Avatar
    bea

    I’m in shock, not because of the amount found, but my an article I just read that stated, ohman this is crazy, from PC World of all places:

    “Are there really scores of cases where MySpace acted as the main instrument used by a predator to meet then harm a kid? Cooper can point to only one case: Last year, North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation arrested a police officer for the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl he lured using MySpace. (A police officer! A state employee!) OK, fair enough, but if we put a law in the books based on just one or two actual offenses (and the worry that there will be more), we’ll end up with a law in search of a crime.” http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/00499…

    This guy must live under a rock or in a cave.

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