{"id":1866,"date":"2007-07-25T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T12:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2007\/07\/25\/re_myspace_and.html"},"modified":"2007-07-25T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T12:52:44","slug":"re_myspace_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2007\/07\/25\/re_myspace_and.html","title":{"rendered":"re: MySpace and sex offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the report that MySpace has obliterated 29,000 accounts that are linked to registered sex offenders, <a href=\"http:\/\/climbtothestars.org\/archives\/2007\/07\/25\/myspace-banning-sex-offenders-online-predator-paranoia\/\">please read Stephanie Booth<\/a>.  Her analysis is spot-on and I couldn&#8217;t say it any better than she did.  So <a href=\"http:\/\/climbtothestars.org\/archives\/2007\/07\/25\/myspace-banning-sex-offenders-online-predator-paranoia\/\">go read it already<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For reasons that I cannot explain, the Attorneys General have far better PR machines than MySpace.  What you are seeing in the press is what the AGs have spun out in their ongoing efforts to force legislation to ban youth from social sites.  This is about throwing out numbers that will make people feel afraid; it is not about trying to paint an accurate portrayal of what&#8217;s happening.  The construction and perpetuation of fear from our most powerful lawyers in the nation makes me sick.  <i>(Then again, the most powerful one keeps lying to Congress so what should I expect?)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the report that MySpace has obliterated 29,000 accounts that are linked to registered sex offenders, please read Stephanie Booth. Her analysis is spot-on and I couldn&#8217;t say it any better than she did. So go read it already. For reasons that I cannot explain, the Attorneys General have far better PR machines than MySpace. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myspace","tag-predators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}