Re: My Space Adds New Age Restrictions

Jun 22, 2006 0 Replies


By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer


> MySpace.com is planning new restrictions on how adults may contact its
> younger users in response to growing concerns about the safety of
> teenagers who frequent the popular online social networking site.

Don't all these changes assume that the site can reliably determine the ages of the users? Isn't one of the big problems on the Internet that an adult pedophile can claim to be a teenager in order to get close to potential victims?


Barry Margolin, snipped-for-privacy@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA


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