MySpace fingers 90,000 nonces
MySpace has admitted it has found, and removed, about 90,000 registered sex offenders on the social networking site in the last two years.
The Attorney General of Connecticut Richard Blumenthal hit MySpace with a subpoena demanding the information.
Blumenthal said the number of profiles refuted the final US Internet Safety Technical Task Force report which found adult sexual harrassment of children was a minor problem. He said the figure was appalling and: "For every one of them, there may be hundreds of others using false names and ages. These convicted registered sex offenders creating profiles under their own names unmasks MySpace's monstrously inadequate counter-measures."
MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media, claimed in January that it was automatically deleting profiles from sex offenders and was monitoring all content more closely. Richard Blumenthal was behind moves in 2007 to force MySpace to admit the scale of the problem - it said then it had "detected and deleted" 27,000 paedophile profiles.
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