This is a dumb PR stunt and, in my opinion, won't make kids any safer. It will just make you think that they are safer since all of the "bad people" are now gone from the site. Its easy enough to defeat by lying about your name and your age. Only watchful parents can make kids safer.


MySpace: 90,000 sex offenders removed from site

Feb 3 02:26 PM US/Eastern

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - MySpace officials say about 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from its huge online social networking Web site.

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said Tuesday the new figure is nearly double what MySpace officials originally acknowledged last year when detailing who had used their site.

Cooper and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have led the charge seeking efforts to make social networking Web sites safer.

MySpace officials sent the numbers to Blumenthal's office Tuesday.

Last year, the attorneys general received agreements from MySpace and rival online networking site Facebook to push toward making their sites safer for young users. Both implemented dozens of safeguards, including limiting how older users can search members under 18.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9649N380&show_article=1

On the other side of the coin, the PR is actually good for community awareness in that it shows that, at one point, there were 90,000 sex offenders on myspace. That's kind of an eye-popping number. Maybe people will think about that before they let their kids get on the internet unsupervised.