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RALEIGH, N.C. - Faced with legal demands from state attorneys general, MySpace.com said Monday it will release data on registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from the popular social networking Web site.

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Curly Howard, the one with the shaven head which Moe referred to as "looking like a dirty tennis ball," was the most popular member of ...

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BronxBomber
May 21, 2007, 7:29 p.m.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal used a subpoena that "compels this information right away â;; within hours, not weeks, without delay â;; because it is vital to protecting children," he said.
"Many of these sex offenders may have violated their parole or probation by contacting or soliciting children on MySpace," Blumenthal said.
That would be a good reason to start cracking down on these pervs. That should take precedence above all else.
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BronxBomber
May 21, 2007, 9:39 p.m.
Votes? It's a plain fact. Of course the children are important than you're evasive brand of rhetoric. You're defending the convicted pedophiles? What? You're one yourself? OK! I'll appease you're insentient attitude towards innocent children, & sense of warped priorities, cynic...
DON'T vote for me!
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2sidestoeverything
May 21, 2007, 11:32 p.m.
Good!
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ETproductions
May 22, 2007, 1:31 a.m.
I'm not sure this is a great idea. Certainly we want to protect the kids. But pedophiles can always find ways to get at them. We had all these pedophiles signing up for Myspace.com. If they had technology to ferret them out, it seems to me it would have made better sense to quietly arrest those who were violating parole by signing up, and assign undercover officers to a sting for those who weren't violating parole. By making a big public announcement like this, these guys just head back underground and stalk playgrounds or sign up to coach little league.
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biggeorge2k
May 22, 2007, 4:13 a.m.
That will solve the worlds problems, whew, I can sleep now.
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CrazyRay
May 22, 2007, 10:52 a.m.
You don't even have to give your real name or any personal info to sign up on MySpace...
...and it's a parenting issue when someone's 12 year-old daughter (or son) has a MySpace page when the minimum age is 14 OR when 14-17 year-olds falsely list their age so their page doesn't fall under the automatic private setting. I have personally seen underage girls saying they're in their 20s with 30 year-olds telling them how "hot & sexy" they look in their picture coments...
Do you know what's "vital to protecting children"? Keeping YOUR CHILD off of a social website until they are of age...you know, like what parenting is all about.
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y_soitenly
May 22, 2007, 7:56 p.m.
"You don't even have to give your real name or any personal info to sign up on MySpace..."
This is part of the problem. Who's to say that these sex offenders won't show up again using an alias name next time.
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donnaray
May 29, 2007, 10:31 p.m.
Myspace needs to set up accounts where you have to have a least one type of ID like your DL# or CC# to sign up.And that will keep a lot of kid from sign up too.A lot of email services do this.they ask for a parent CC#.