MySpace has turned over the names of some 7000 registered sex offenders to legal authorities in eight states. The number is frightening, until you take in account that there are about 175 million MySpace users. Then when you consider how many of them are young, the number becomes just as frightening.
There are all sorts of legal issues here, the rights f privacy of registered users being one of them. The fact that these sex offenders have not been reported to having been caught doing anything wrong, the question of state jurisdiction, end so on.
Personally I don't care. I think a society has a primary obligation to protect its children. There are no higher priorities. I think MySpace is to be commended for turning over the names.
