Stepping up efforts to keep sex offenders off MySpace.com, the popular social networking Web site has partnered with an online identity and background verification company to build a U.S. national sex offender database and dedicate staff to checking the database against MySpace profiles. Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. will build a searchable database containing information on sex offenders in the U.S. who are registered with various federal and state law enforcement agencies. The database, which will be frequently updated, will include details such as name, age, physical appearance and distinguishing features like tattoos and scars. MySpace staff will monitor the site 24-hours-a-day for sex offenders who are on the list. They’ll remove any matching profiles that they find. MySpace has been lobbying for new legislation that could help it take the program one step further. The company wants a law that requires sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses in a national sex-offender database. The law would stipulate that the use of an unregistered e-mail constitutes a parole or probation violation, forcing offenders back to jail. If such a law is passed, MySpace can more easily identify sex offenders that have profiles on its site, the company said.”
Can a private company have a private definition of the meaning of “sex offender?” Who, according to Fox News, is a sex criminal? Will they draw their information exclusively from court records? Or will they decide that the thousands and thousands of users who write about any “alternative” form of sexuality are also “offenders?”"
http://www.pervscan.com/2006/12/10/myspace-tries-to-root-out-sex-offenders/
by way of NetPorn Digest
thanks Diederik
Posted by Stubbornson at December 30, 2006 05:38 PM