Facebook and MySpace Booting Sex Offenders in Droves

Published by Tech Pundit | Filed under Social media | December 1st, 2009

Social networks have been in the precarious position of having to deal with sex offenders since their early days, but as a result of new laws being passed around the country, several local governments now also play a role in keeping predators off the likes of Facebook and MySpace . Today, New York state reports that a registry they set up that requires convicted sex offenders to provide social networking details to the state has resulted in 3,500 people losing their Facebook and MySpace accounts. According to a statement from the state’s attorney general’s office, “The law sets mandatory restrictions on a sex offender’s access to the Internet where the offender’s victim was a minor, the Internet was used to commit the offense or they are among the highest-level offenders.” While MySpace and Facebook are the focus of today’s report, the AG says they are encouraging 17 other social networking sites to start using its database as well

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Facebook and MySpace Booting Sex Offenders in Droves