Crime victim sues MySpace.com for $30 million for failing to verify users ages

[Anita]

Xppma,
Is your dog a male?  My two females (Lacy and Snarky) are looking for buddies.  Maybe they can find love on MySpace.

[xppman]

Maybe they can find love on MySpace?  :blinkie:

Hell... he does better than me.

Lets PM.. maybe we can hook these pups up.

Puppy PORN.. 

The NEXT New and exciting thing that ebay will  offer and embrace. 

[xppman]

Oh...  Only "certain" countries will be covered by the NEW PayPal PPP. 

Puppy Porn PROTECTION.

[bargainbloodhound]

Under the changes expected to be announced today, MySpace users 18 and older will no longer be able to request to join a 14- or 15-year-old's friends' list unless they know the youth's e-mail address or full name...

It's amazing how fast corporations can act when a lawsuit is filed and they receive bad press. A problem can exist for months/years and is ignored, and then the second the company receives bad press or gets sued they immediately take action to fix the problem.  Wouldn't it be easier cheaper to fix a known problem BEFORE you get hit with a lawsuit not after?

[rose]

It's amazing how fast corporations can act when a lawsuit is filed and they receive bad press.

Corporate America sucks. 

[iron_chick]

I'll chime in here with those who think that the parents should be monitoring what their 14 year old daughters are doing . . . but I also think that those who put stuff out there on the net have a responsiblity as well. 

A friend of mine is doing a research paper on internet porn . . . I had NO FREAKIN' CLUE that you can access hard core sites without doing ANY sort of age verification.  I mean, the kids don't even have to lie - they can just click right on in . . . .

[stardust]

Not to change the subject again, but.....ummm....that's a dog? 

[Anita]

Beth,
I hear what you are saying.  I just feel that parents need to take responsibility as well. 
My pet peeve is people not taking responsibility for their actions and always blaming someone else.
I DID learn that a person can see porn without doing anything special.  One day I was ordering pizza online and I messed up one letter in the URL.  I was stunned... and so was my verrrrry young daughter, at the time.

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Stardust - "Not to change the subject again, but.....ummm....that's a dog?"
 
;D ;D ;D

[mandy]

A writer who says a lack of parental supervision is the real culprit, not MySpace:

This astonished me. Here I was, only 23 and childless, and I was telling adults how to parent their teen! At that point I realised the awful truth: lots of people just don't know how to raise their kids.

The same situation holds true for MySpace. The company can hire all the security officers it wants, and it could replace every ad with a flashing banner that says "DO NOT TRUST RANDOM STRANGERS!!!", and send fliers to every parent in America...and bad things would still happen to kids connected to MySpace. A lot of parents aren't very good at parenting, and part of being a teenager is saying and doing stupid things (I'm example number one for that particular precept), trying to socialise as much as possible, and worrying at the same time about your hair and your weight and your zits and your clothes.

We can sure try to educate kids and parents and schools about MySpace, but I'm just not certain how effective we're ever going to be. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but it also means that we can't expect perfect success. Any time you allow humans to come into contact with each other, there's the potential for exploitation. That doesn't mean disaster is guaranteed, however. It just means that we need to try to keep a cool head and not allow blind emotion and fear to cloud our better judgments.

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/03/...parenting/

[rose]

A lot of parents aren't very good at parenting, and part of being a teenager is saying and doing stupid things

Both very true.