On MySpace

DANNY O'BRIEN points to stuff that Wired News found on MySpace. "Online service Wired News ran the names of random sex offenders through MySpace, coming up with five people whose names and photos appeared to match". That might suggest there's real work ahead for "child safety star" Hemu Nigam who Rupert Murdoch's News Corp hired to deal with concerns that it has not done enough to protect its younger members. I'm not a MySpace fan because the stuff I find there is too unpredictable. For parents who don't cop onto MySpace, it's probably time to go swimming onto that internet space if there's a teenager in the house. There's an interesting world online and some of it means you rub shoulders with surprising people. They aren't always what they seem to be on screen.

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Jenn Shreve -- "MySpace Faces a Perp Problem"
Danny O'Brien -- "Trading off decency and immunity" in The Irish Times, April 21, 2006.

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