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MySpace: 90,000 sex offenders removed from site - BusinessWeek

Submitted by Infodiva

Feb 04, 2009

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About 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the social networking Web site MySpace, company and law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

The number was nearly double what MySpace officials originally estimated last year, said North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, who along with Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has led efforts to make social networking Web sites safer for young users. Read the full article

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Realtalk,

Sep 23, 2009

Yeah, and where are those offenders going to go? Lock their doors and pout in their rooms? No, they're going to find other places to prey on teenagers: http://www.pointsincase.com/columns/casey-freeman/myspace-of-sex