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CT - Raising Some Questions About Smoking Gun Sex Offender Profiles On MySpace

View the TechDirt article here And Richard Blumenthal, is taking the advice and statistics, from Steve Rambam, who apparently has a criminal history himself. 01/27/2009 from the anyone-check-if-it's-actually-real? dept Last week, there was a story on News.com about how Connecticut's Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, who's been on quite a crusade to "protect the children" from social networks, was demanding MySpace hand over info on sex offenders registered on the site. This seemed a bit odd, because MySpace and other social networks had already agreed to weed out the accounts of various sex offenders. Yet, as the article noted, an investigator (who was involved in a separate legal battle with MySpace) happened to find profiles of registered sex offenders still on MySpace including (gasp!) some who even used their own mug shots as their photos...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).