Comments on: 29,000 Sex Offenders Have MySpace Profiles

Social-Networking Site Reported Just 7,000 Offenders Two Months Ago

[rthemidget]

There is a child molester right there in Rutherford County, NC. His name is Jimmy Coffey.

[tnt1954]

scientists have proven beyond the shadow
of a reasonable doubt that the land of make-believe is 100% fact and real. so many
people are way gone into fantasyland
at disneyland they will never return.
as predicted by sexologists that had
phds. from university of calipornia
at santa barbara back in 1969 when
i left there, cause it was getting
way too far out. and then in the fall
it was riot time. they were insane
the inventors of the internet.

[cooljcrg]

Republic1776... Irrespective of the values of your position, you numerous spelling and grammar errors make it hard for people like me to take you too seriously...

[tnt1954]

you need a ten thousand dollar licensing
fee on the internet to operate on it so
there can be an internet rapid response
police and cyber swat team.

[phydeux1]

I'm SO GLAD to see people posting here with common sense like Republic and Newster. Articles like this are just fear-mongering to stir the populace into a froth and frenzy over a bogeyman that largely keeps to the shadows (or churches).

The safety of children is the responsibility of the parents. PERIOD! Government can legislate crosswalks and child seats in cars. But regulating who uses public services like the internet is wrong.

Lets stop using *** offenders (A WIDELY ABUSED TERM!) as a scapegoat for all our anger and focus on real issues like parental irresponsibility, child abuse, and child neglect. There's far more of that going around, but it doesn't get the press-time a couple of rare pedophiles do.

[nyckate]

republic1776 - your comparison is extremely stupid.

Fact is peodophiles attack as many as they can get near - they aren't like someone who accidently hit someone with their car - they strike as often as they can - they abuse as often as they can. Peodophiles would attack 10 children a day if they could.

We are a republic - and we have OBLIGATIONS and laws and rules to live by - some are moral and others are written into the US COnstitution. You seem to want the internet (and probably the entire US) to live by rules of the Wild Wild West where whoever wanted to could arm themselves and if one got dead cause some fing moron with a gun mistook you for someone else then oh well on to the next town.

We as a nation have an OBLIGATION to protect the yound and the defenseless.

[nothappyatall]

"used a database it helped create to remove about 7,000 profiles of *** offenders,"

WOW, whoop-te-do they removed the PROFILES, like these people can't simply create a new account in 2 minutes and start again LOL

I doubt the number 29,000 is even valid, for one thing most people have more than one account on places like these, why not? the accounts are totally FREE. You forgot your password or want a second, third or fourth 'personna'?, just create a new account.

Personally I think the whole idea of closing these accounts is a total waste of time given the above, it's time for the PARENTS to monitor your own kid's on- line as that's the ONLY thing that will work.

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[gmond]

I agree with everything republic1776 wrote, I just wish I could have listened to his thoughts instead of reading them.

[donnie900]

The American Parent has to pull a Cheney on their kids.

[republic1776]

29,000 Out of a profile membership of 180 million. That's over half of the United States population. .016 are perverts. That number might be lower that our streets of America.
I say use common sense and educate the young.
For instance I learned at a young age that one does not ware $500 watches and $300.00 sneakers and take a leisurely walk at midnight in North Philadelphia. (VICTUM)
I question the Governments true intentions, anytime I hear a plea %u201Cit%u2019s for the children%u201D
I here the ringing; that sweet sound of new tax revenues!
%u201CFor the children%u201D
We would loose total anonymity and have to give all of our person information including a credit card. (ching)
What would be next? Traveling papers like Russia?
No thanks!

[donnie900]

Download keystroke software. You can get it now so that it runs transparently on anybody's computer. And monitors everything. Keystrokes? Conversations? Websites? Everything. You don't even have to be there. It'll email all the info to ya.

[nsbradley]

Yes, the human race is actually animal but please do not insult the 4 legged animals by referring to the evil people in Mankind's society as animals - please refer to these low life humans as 2-legged animals because 4 legged animals do not rape and molest humans. Granted they sometimes kill but only when the human happens to be in the space the 4 legged animal is occupying. 4 legged animals though they have abilities that humans do not possess such as unusually great hearing, unusually great sense of smell, etc. they do not go on My Space to find victims. Everytime we degrade an innocent animal by giving it negative human traits we demean ourselves and show our level of ignorance.

[hedonist3]

nsbradley for President!

rharrin1 - What a childish retort on such a serious matter.

[keithle1]

I'm shocked. Stunned. How could this happen? Why would they wanna hang out where kids hang out?
It makes no sense. SOMEONE PROTECT OUT KIDS!!!!

[sharncedar]

The media culture promotes s$xual conduct becuase a person in their reproductive age spends the most money and asks the least questions. Thus children are forced into s$xual activity at a young age and old people who should be valued for their wisdom are treated as worthless if they are no longer s$xual. This culture treats people like trash, and so the sick perverted molestors act out the messages the get from the culture. S$x is all that matters, and people are discardable trash. That is pretty horrible when combined, but it is exactly the meaning of most Hollywood movies. When you look at a molestor, you all is looking in the mirror.

29,000 is too many to be explained by human abberation, this is clearly an activity or perversion that is encouraged by something in our society, and it seems obvious it is the media and advertising culture.

So for the person advocating the death penalty, I agree, let's start with Hollywood.

[rharrin1]

Must be the whole bush administration is signing up.

[nsbradley]

I know there are those who do not believe in the death penalty but it really is way past time to cull the human herd - child molesters, rapists, etc. cannot be cured - CANNOT BE CURED! The internet will continue to provide them cover and new victims regardless of what precautions parents and the internet try to enact. How many missing and then found killed females does it take, how many missing and raped young people does it take before all of you idealistic non common sense or logical refuse to face the truth and finally realize enough is more than enough and get rid of the human pollutants who refuse to be productive and positive contributors to our society. We cannot continue to waste money building prisons, tax dollars spent on feeding, guarding, providing free attorneys for the most vile of our citizens. Every time a rapist rapes and a child killer kills and a child molester molests those of you who refuse to take the required action to stop the brutality are participants in the gore. Some people are pure evil! Polly Klaus was kidnapped from her own house from her own bedroom and brutalized, raped and killed - just how much more innocent could she have been! The piece of stank vicious violent sub human trash that took her life had a long prison record - Polly did not even have a long life - she was a mere 13 years old! All the victims cry out for justice - lend your voice in contempt of those who cause victims!

[nyckate]

I know parents who have taken down their kids myspace page and these same teens have skuck around to friends or even the library to put up new ones ...

In some ways kids have even less freedom that we did - we could always go places without having parents forced to take us to our friends or even to high school games and things - now kids have to be 'scheduled' to go everywhere - and yet they have the freedom of the internet and they aren't mature enough to handle it - and also we have the problem of hoards of animals trying to take advantage of them.

It's a scary world out there today that's for sure. Parents are going to have to restrict their kids access to internet - yes- parents - its an inconvenience and you wish you didn't have to do it - tough - do it.

[phil-in-fin]

29,000!

Wow!

"Business" must be good in MySpace ... as a father of four, this makes me sick to my stomach ...

[clew37]

"restricting interstate commerce"

Are these the new buzzwords for rape? Like how they now call sexual slavery "trafficking", like the kids are just any other piece of produce or cattle...?