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How Sexual Predators in (Your)Space Have Strategically Employed Existing Cyber-Laws to Outflank Their Prey

By Alliance Alert

With the modern landscape of tech-savvy youths, today's sexual predators employ online social networking sites (?OSNs?) as the new frontier for clandestine hunting grounds. These faceless cyber-sharks--the illicit spawn of the robust shelters created by § 230 of the Communications Decency Act (?CDA?)--have rapidly adapted to the free reign enjoyed in the unbridled habitat that is the internet. This Comment examines the surprisingly expansive immunity currently afforded to OSNs under the guise of the CDA. It also endorses the policies of website accountability and online sex-offender registration as complimentary techniques of combating today's online predator crisis. Lastly, it serves to meet a growing need for the assemblage of cyber-law related information into an organized legal paper that explains several emerging concepts of liability for interactive internet service providers.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).