How is it the entire world is so self absorbed that anyone who is on the registry is now at the social pool of dirt???? I happen to know someone who is on the registry because of a mistake in their younger days who already did their time for their crime, are compliant, and STILL are dealt crap day in and day out. Rather than put everyone in the same category if myspace is that prejudiced then they should legally have to also show risk assessments on those people put online. Also may I ask how this is even legal since it says right on the site any action taken against people on the site is ILLEGAL? Yes there are some people on the site that should be, there are people that aren't who need to be, but there are also people on there who messed up once and learned their lesson and who deserve the decency to have THAT acknowledged besides the scarlet letter for life. And you know what whether you label me with the same label I don't care because 1 you don't know me and 2 I happen to care that the world is going to hell in a handbasket and rather than just sit here and let people be wrongfully judged I intend to do something about it.

Infact I've just thought. Why don't websites like MySpace and Bebo join forces with the different goverments. When you set up your account you have to provid your passport number. If everything matches your details you entered your alright. If they don't DELETED!!
Humm..Just a thought :)

Actually unless I am wrong, there are people who are on the S.O. site who can't "join forces with the different governments" because there are some crimes to put them on the site that are felonies and unless someone knows otherwise I was told people with felonies can't get passports to begin with.

Surly sex offenders won't use the same information twice. If they don't these databases will not have them on record, if they do then they need locking up for being so stupid! Good luck to Sentinel Tech Holding in producing this technology.

It has always struck me as odd how we release people that we expect to repeat their crimes. If they were reformed, they shouldn't need to be registered and tracked to such a degree. If they weren't, then they shouldn't have been let out.

Incredibly simple way around this: Set up a new account, with a different real and display name, a random hotmail address, and say you live in a different place. It'll be a long time before they do IP tracking to confirm location.

I say just make all sub-16 kids profiles private until they turn 16.

How about they just block underage kids from creating profiles saying they are older? require some kind of verification.

I'm all for this. Credit card verification for age is great, no excuse since debit cards are very popular now.

MySpace is going to lose probably 1/4th of its profiles lol. Alright maybe not that many but a good chunk of them. Next they'll delete the profiles of all the profiles of people suspected of belonging to terrorist groups too.

The next step is to make all the sex offenders wear little red six pointed stars on their clothing. Then we'll just eventually send them all to the "showers".

Easiest way to get rid of someone these days is to label them as a sex offender or a terrorist.

And before you attack me for saying sex offenders have rights to just imagine yourself being labeled as a sex offender and how amazingly horrible your life would become because of that.

LAMO! And yes. I aggree with you. So many profiles I have seen with a guy... A bald/crew cut, fat/overly skinny with a goatee... And for some reason, one of their pics says " This was my last little one!!!" ... And he is 46. Honestly MySpace.. Screen peoples profiles.

So you are saying there is an age limit, or should be, on MySpace?

Well then I probably will have my account deleted shortly because I openly am NOT a Republican, can't stand the hell that is going on with the bogus war, am an activist, and (gasp) someone that actually actively stands up for others by words and actions regardless of what label might be coming my way. Thank you for your message, I agree with you 100%. If you want to be in active activism you should check out care2.com. I have been active on it for a couple years now and never plan on stopping. Thanks again.

The REAL offenders who take advantage of girls are going to be the ones who noone knows about - not even some database. They were smart and continuely get away with it.
This just stops the stupid ones that wernt carefull. Thats the one issue with social networking, its near impossible to police.

...or use the "Sex Offender Opt-out" button.

speaking of, if your email address is incorrectly flagged as an offender, is there anyway to correct this?

"The application is the result of joint work between the two parties. MySpace has advocated for amending sex offender laws to include registration of e-mail addresses."

"MySpace says the effort would not be enough unless Congress heeds its calls to force sex offenders to register their Internet identities."

who verifies that the sex offender's email address is actually theirs, and not someone else's? I mean, you've been arrested and now you need to write down your email address (if any), what says that the one you provide is correct, and not something like billgates@microsoft.com. Who verifies these and how is it done?

What is the sense of a registered sex offender email database? They can just make another email address easily.

MySpace just gets creepier all the time don't it?