MySpace Kicks Out Sex Offenders

With Facebook nipping at the heels of MySpace for U.S. web traffic, what’s MySpace’s solution? Kick out 90,000 registered users!

Fortunately, according to CNN, those 90,000 banned users were also convicted sex offenders. This revelation is thanks to the Connecticut attorney general, who subpoenaed MySpace’s user files to check for sex-offender crossover.

MySpace said, “As the first and only social networking site to use state of the art technology to identify and remove registered sex offenders from its site, MySpace is proud of its leadership position and hopes that Facebook follows our lead in providing their members with the same protections. As part of our longstanding partnership with law enforcement and state attorneys general, we will continue to readily provide information on these removed offenders for their investigations.”

Two funny things:

1. They make a point of mentioning Facebook, the social network which must still be full of sexual predators.
2. Their “longstanding partnership with law enforcement” began with MySpace initially refusing to comply with the Connecticut attorney general’s subpoena.

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