Who would have thought that a glorified electronic kiosk might attracted perverts once teen girls started posting their pictures and sexual desires there?
Attorney General Roy Cooper announced Tuesday morning that more than 2,100 sex offenders from North Carolina were found on the social networking website MySpace.
Cooper subpoenaed MySpace, making the website turn over the names, IP addresses and emails of 2,116 convicted sex offenders in the state of North Carolina. Cooper plans to share the information with local law enforcement.
Cooper has now requested similar information from Facebook.
“It’s no secret that child predators are on these web sites,†Cooper said in a written statement. “Turning over information about these predators to law enforcement helps, but MySpace, Facebook and other social networks need to do much more to protect kids online.â€
As opposed to parents, teachers and, oh, let’s say an Attorney General. Maye if adults started raising their children right perverts wouldn’t be so attracted to MySpace where teen girls post pictures of themselves drunk and in various states of undress. But why should parents take responsibility for their own children’s safety?
Trench says it best:
Personally if I was the AG I would not have announced this because now 2,116 probation violating sex offenders could be going into hiding. You’d think it would make sense to hold off any announcements until arrests are made. In my opinion Mr. Cooper is more of a PR seeking bureaucrat than he is an Attorney General. This isn’t his first rodeo when it comes to MySpace. In the past AG Cooper has made what I consider to be some ridiculous demands from MySpace in the name of the children. And like most Attorneys General not once does he call on parents to be more vigilant. That’s because they’re voters and MySpace is just a faceless website.
Indeed. All that being said, I finally started a MySpace for my blogs, which Trench Reynolds has studiously ignored. I’ve already had four dudes ask me to meet them, so parents, keep your kids off the Internet.
Hey, capital T there buddy. I don’t call you rob. 😆
And I sent you a MySpace friend request.
D’oh! I was watching TV while typing.
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All due respect to Trench but at least this AG is DOING something. I don’t see too many blogs about Obama’s pick for DAG (Deputy Attorney General) for this country, who is a notorious child rapist/child porn/child molestor defender – and he’s supposed to be protecting our kids .. the man who has seen to overturn the very child protection laws he is supposed to now be in charge of!
Standing ovation for Mr. Cooper. I hope like hel this will drag David Ogden into the light from behind the shadows of Obama’s Messiah-esque glory.
And the reason they go into hiding after they’ve been exposed is because they know they will be safe elsewhere. The problem isn’t exposing them. It’s in the people who HARBOR them!
Parents don’t do enough. We know that. But there is only so much one man can do, and let’s face it, he’s basically alone. How many other politicians have been on this anti bandwagon? Because guess who else votes, ladies and gents? That’s right! CHILD ABUSERS!
Before anyone criticizes this man, why not HELP! I know Trench has done a lot for the child abuse awareness and prevention efforts, as have you, Rob. But don’t criticize someone for their efforts in getting this exposed just because it isn’t how you would do it. I mean, damn! Look how hard it is for us to get ANY freaking help from people because no one wants to talk about it. The last thing we need is to criticize someone for not being “anti” the way we like.
Geez. Do you think online predators behave this way toward each other? They’d be much easier to take down if they did! Think about that.
My criticism is that he’s actively trying to give a false sense of security to parents for political purposes. There’s one way to keep your kids from meeting pedophiles online-don’t let them meet people online.
Parents need to understand that short f closing these sites down there’s no way to keep perverts off them. There’s no technology that can verify age and no system that keeps track f the activity of millions of people. Trench os right, the AG should have moved n on these guys and busted them, then announced it. That may not be a perfect system but it is the only one that works.
Telling parents MySpace could block RSOs if they wanted is dishonest and dangerous.
I know, Rob, and you know why I’m just getting frustrated about all this. I won’t go into that here. I’m tired of turning on the TV and seeing that Sarah Maclachlan tearjerker ad for the ASPCA at least every 30 minutes. What’s out there for child abuse? I suppose raping a child isn’t as bad as kicking a dog in this country.