Topic: Facebook, MySpace ban New York sex offenders

[sam]

Facebook and MySpace have closed the accounts of 3,533 convicted sex offenders in New York state under a law combating online predators, officials said Tuesday.

http://www.physorg.com/news178908953.html

[Rik]

A step in the right direction. Now if they could just close the rest of the accounts...

[Simon]

Won't they just open another account using false details? 

[Rik]

Probably.

[Clive]

I have to say that I felt very safe walking through the back streets of New York at midnight.  Not a hint of trouble.   

[Rik]

Which back streets though, Clive.

[Clive]

Times Square which is at the centre of New York City to 12th Avenue which is where the cruise terminal is situated.  Once you get past 9th Avenue it gets quite dark and lonesome because there is nothing there but apartment blocks.  I expected to see lots of druggies but it was as clean as a whistle.  When I was in NYC back in 1968 I got mugged!   

[Simon]

That's because all the villains were on Facebook! 

[Clive]

 

[Simon]

[sam]

A step in the right direction. Now if they could just close the rest of the accounts...

haha