New Laws Proposed on Net Predators

Congress is planning to invite more officials of social networking sites to Washington this fall to talk about proposed legislation on sexual predators on the Internet. Three areas seem to be under the most discussion: getting convicted sex offenders off social networking sites by requiring them to report their online identities including emails, handles, etc., severely fining sites that fail to report child pornography on their servers, and attempting to raise the profile of Internet sex crimes against children within the Department of Justice, including additional funding and the setting up of a new office dedicated to investigating online child exploitation.

Predators on MySpace - Scary Statistics

Last week 29,000 sex offenders were identified and their accounts and pages removed from MySpace. That's a truly chilling statistic. Officials say that the same kind of weeding out process is now being used on Facebook. Couldn't have happened soon enough as far as I'm concerned. Experts say that just removing these people is, of course, not enough and that it takes the continuing cooperation of police, lawmakers, schools, parents, teens and the sites to keep kids safe online. For more information on what's being done and tools parents can use, see A Multi-Front Battle Against Web Predators on the Washington Post site (you will have to register, but it is free.)