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- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Teach kids some common sense. Seriously.
Pay more attention to your kids & then they won't go looking for it from pedophiles. - texture, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1850 million myspace users, less than 10 children have been reported in the media as having some sort of problem with predators in the 3 years myspace has been operational/popular. Am I the only person who thinks there really isn't a problem? Call me rational, but you get 50 million people together, there's going to be (x) amount of any given exploitable crime, there's no way to stop that.
- CarlosReyes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Most parents now-a-days are just too damn lazy, or just find these topics too taboo to explain it to their children.. get a goddamn backbone.. its called a penis, not a willy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13exactly, hell i bet more then 10 kids have been grabbed from play grounds in that time
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13until their 18, yes, the blame for everything does indeed lie atleast in part with parents
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8FTA:
"A woman in Texas has filed a law suit against MySpace after her 14-year-old daughter was assaulted by a man she was first in contact with on the site. Two teenage girls in the US were found to have used MySpace to publish death threats against a fellow school pupil, while two other girls robbed a man at gunpoint after they pretended to be an older woman and lured him to a flat."
So, let me see if I'm understanding this new hysteria correctly.
If your child is attacked while walking down a certain road, you can sue the person who cleared away the forest and built a road there in the first place.
If your unruly child burns down your house, you should sue the company who manufactures matches.
And if a guy agrees to meet someone, based on their (false) description, and willingly goes ( 'is lured' ) into a private place, and robbed -- then surely that guy, in his gullibility and ignorance, is not responsible.
(What is he, a g*damn fish, that he can be 'lured' around like that? A MAN must take responsibility for HIS OWN actions!)
It is clear that these people will not accept responsibility for their own stupidity, or that of their cildren!
The WORLD is not a fairy tale. I think MySpace ought to consider suing the parents, in the above case, for defaming their (albeit stupid) site, by not being adequate parents and then following that up with a lie, shifting responsibility for their little brats onto others!.
Of course, as mentioned above, by 'texture', less than 10 out of 50million, in 3 years, is no case for alarm, but fdalls within the expected incidence of an crime. Sure, we will try to stop it, but shifting the blame to the website, or any communication provider, or a road-builder, etc....is just stupid and irresponsible!
Perhaps MySpace, in an act of good faith, can put togeter and offer a course in RESPONSIBLE PARENTING in this new internet age.
Thing just ain't the same as when grandma was growing up, half a century ago!
Letigious, irresponsible DORKS! - interiot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Force all the sexual predators to lie to MySpace and say they're 14 years old, that'll help.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7just another government agency that will do nothing but shuffle paper.
these people are predators, and yes they will continue to be a threat for ever and ever.
BUT for crying out loud, atleast read your kids myspace site or converse with them on IM along with their friends. as a kid i remmeber the only things i hid from my parents were things i didn't think i could tell them. sounds obvious i know, but if you remove that barrier and your kids can tell you anything, then you'll quickly be alerted to the presence of "cuteguy14" in their lives and nip the problem in the bud. - synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You think kids meetin up with pedophiles is bad? some 13 year old old shot himself in the head because another kid took his ipod. His friends created a myspace memorial page which described him as 'an hero' (much to amusement of 4chan and other assorted internet forums). That kids parents need to have their child-rearing liscence revoked for bringing up a kid with such ***** up priorities that the loss of an ipod was worth his life.
- golddigga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6im a kid and i know only the stupid kids would just go around meeting people from myspace in the park at ten oclock. people aren't that dumb
same with violent video games, me and plenty of other kids play GTA and nobody's went out and hijacked anyone. i think it's dumb for ***** mpaa dna oflc to put an age limit on this kind of stuff - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5On the other hand, children get molested in school by teachers. And by sports coaches. And by uncles. And by older brothers. And by priests.
You don't see an outcry to shut down schools and churches. - dante21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Thank you! All parents have to do is tell their kids, "Hey Jimmy, if someone ask to met you in the park to play with you no-no parts DON'T DO IT!!"
- Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5LETS ALL BLAME THE ROCK MUSIC!!!!!
Their just trying to find the newest scapegoats for irresponsibility. - DocGlass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Just another reason to lock kids up in a glass box, or bubble if you prefer.
- profJohn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Good parenting is a good thing, but making the leap to blaming parents for their kids being the victims of pedophiles is off base.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Before everyone was on the web, people were on BBSes. And guess what... this sort of ***** almost never happened. Don't blame technology for having stupid children.
People met back in the BBS days. However, they usually had enough common sense to meet either in gatherings put together by the sysops and other users or they met in groups or they simply met in a public place (for coffee, etc).
The world hasn't changed so much in the last 10 to 15 years. The only difference is that unlike 10 or 15 years ago, more of the population is using it. And since there are a lot of stupid people in the population, that increases the odds of things like this happening, unlike back in the day when the typical person online had to jump over a little higher barrier than barrowing mom's laptop or sitting at a terminal in the library. So you tended to have people who were at least slightly educated or intelligent.
Frankly, you can't just leave your kids to let the internet babysit them like you used to let television babysit them. If you do, the one who should be criminalized is THE PARENT. - Berkowitz1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Serious Organised Crime Agency" hmmm, they must mean business.
- pgm_01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just guessing but this must be a British organization. It does not have the seriousness or patriotism of an American acronym and it does not contain the phrase "task force". It many cases the name is more thought out than the actual organization.
- captainbluebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is a British organization, but with a very American symbol.
- DocGlass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think parents fear their children, some times I get the feeling that mine do. They made up for it by teaching me morals and *logic*.
I feel that the only people fit to blame are the children, and by legal association their parents.
Does the USPS get sued if a pedophile "lures" a kid somewhere by pretending to be a pen pal? MySpace is a medium, just like e-mail, snail mail, or the air sound travels across. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So long as its airtight!
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2[quote]"Serious Organised Crime Agency" hmmm, they must mean business.[/quote]
What's the country coming to when our law enforcement organizations sound like something out of a Monty Python skit? - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2[quote]Why the arbitrary age cutoff at 18?[/quote]
Some Christian decided that's what it should be. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1socialNetworking(geeks) == Digg;
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If they are looking at MySpace, sounds like the "Time On Our Hands and a Budget to Justify" agency. And from that point of view, all federal law enforcement looks very similar.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Don't you realize what these scumbags are trying to do? It is the same old right-wing Christian fundamentalist lobby looking for ways to impose control over the internet.
They create they create the problem, then position themselves as the solution. Next, you pay them.
And after that, one of them might abuse your kids in church anyway! - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2[quote]Pay more attention to your kids & then they won't go looking for it from pedophiles.[/quote]
Er... I don't think attention is what they're looking for from pedophiles.
The problem with America is that the Christian fundamentalists in this country refuse to admit that as soon as kids hit puberty they immediately start thinking about sex! It is natural. If you want to believe in God, then God created mankind this way!
These religious charlatans in America and the Vatican are the problem, not "pedophiles." Unless you're talking about Catholic priests. Now those really are a problem because they're rapists!
There is a difference between pedophilia and rape! - venthi76, on 11/13/2008, -0/+0we have started a website to do our part in helping known social abuses.
myabuser.com is a place for people to share their experience on any online safety threats especially during their
online social networking activities. Share your experience and help others beware of similar threats when socialising! - klepto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2At least they are asking the users for help instead of being like the rest of the government of the world and making choices/decisions that are idiotic.
- danglerman, on 10/12/2007, -10/+10crime+social networking=MySpace
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I wouldn't call sex with post-pubescent teenage girls a crime. I don't care what the law says, the law is wrong. The law is based on Judeo-Christian values. Judeo-Christian values are an OPINION.
- 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3watch me do something in an election year, losers...
- writingrights, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre, a wing of the newly formed Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)," ... as opposed to the Facetious Organi[z]ed Crime Agency? Anyway, like Klepto said, it's great that they're actually going out and finding out what people think, but what I want to know is how are people being invited to these meetings, and in what format will the meetings take place? (My unasked question, who says that these people will actually have a voice, that they will be heard?)
- splintax, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Why the arbitrary age cutoff at 18?
- Kourgin, on 10/12/2007, -14/+9crime+social networking=digg
haha, joking, love you guys.
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