MySpace to 'block sex offenders'
Social networking website MySpace says it will release tools to identify and ban US sex offenders from its service.
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7.12.2006 Vista: the Gender Challenged OS, After the Longhorn Sex Change
Windows Vista is a Microsoft gender-challenged operating system, after it has survived the Longhorn sex change. Just bear with me, it will all make sense in the end, I promise.
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22.3.200829,000 Sex Offender Profiles on MySpace
The problem of sex offenders
on MySpace now appears to be
much larger than the company
initially suggested. The
social networking site said
earlier this week that it had
deleted 29,000 sex offender
profiles...
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26.07.2007Ohio politician proposes sex offender tracking device
An Ohio lawmaker is proposing his state help its citizens track the locations of registered sex offenders by using RFID technology...
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08.12.2007MySpace Looks to ID Sex Offender Profiles
In an effort to curb use of
the site by sex offenders,
MySpace plans to introduce
technology that would identify
and block those attempting to
use its social networking
service...
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05.12.2006VA Wants E-Mail Addresses of Sex Offenders
MySpace has been advocating
that governments require sex
offenders to register their
online identities. On Monday,
it may have found its first
ally in that fight: Robert
McDonnell, the attorney
general for the state of
Virginia...
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12.12.2006MySpace Agrees to ID Sex Offenders
MySpace has acquiesced to
demands from several states'
attorneys general, saying it
would release data on sex
offenders it has identified
and removed from its site...
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22.05.2007MySpace Data Used To Catch Seven Sex Offenders
It did not take very long for
data released by MySpace on
sex offenders to be used in
the apprehension of those who
are using the site in
violation of their parole or
probation rules...
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16.06.2007eHarmony launches site for same-sex love seekers
In a move which both thrills and irritates this writer, eHarmony has agreed to open a new matching service for those who are homosexual by March 31,
2009. By starting CompatiblePartners.net, a new site for those who would like to pursue a same-sex relationship, eHarmony has avoided being found in
violation of New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination (LAD).
Read full story.....
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20.11.2008MySpace Deleting Sex Offender Profiles
The MySpace profiles of a
"few thousand"
convicted sex offenders have
been removed, the popular
social networking site said
Tuesday. But the company says
it will not hand over the
users' names to states
requesting the data...
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16.05.2007Britain wants to ban sex offenders from social networking sites
The British Home Office today announced it wants to stop convicted sex offenders from using social networking Web sites by making it illegal for them
to sign up. Parliament is scheduled to take a look at the legislation before 2009...
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04.04.2008MySpace asked for names of registered sex offenders
Attorneys general from eight
states want MySpace to turn
over the names of potentially
thousands of registered sex
offenders who may be members
of its popular social
networking site. In a May 14
letter to MySpace, the
attorneys general from
Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho,
Mississippi, New Hampshire,
North Carolina, Ohio, and
Pennsylvania said they are
"gravely concerned" that
sexual predators are using the
Web site to lure children to
meet them offline. They asked
MySpace to tell them how many
registered sex offenders
they've identified on the
site and what the company is
doing to remove them.
The officials also
want to know what MySpace has
done to alert its users who
have communicated with the sex
offenders as well as what the
company has done to alert law
enforcement. They gave MySpace
until May 29 to respond. The
attorneys general said they
believe that data from
Sentinel Tech Holdings, a
company working with MySpace
to identify sex offenders,
indicates that thousands of
sex offenders are MySpace
members. "MySpace is a
treasure-trove of potential
victims for child predators,"
said North Carolina Attorney
General Roy Cooper. "Sex
offenders have no business
being on this site, and we
believe MySpace has a
responsibility to get them off
the site."
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16.05.2007Sex offenders must turn over Internet passwords
Sex offenders who live in the state of Georgia have lost a lot more privacy. A new law that went into effect today requires all offenders not only
give authorities their Internet email address and screen names but also the passwords too. Georgia is not the first state to enact such legislation.
Utah was the first to require passwords as well as Internet handles to be turned over to authorities; there are currently 15 states that require email
address and user names be turned over but not all require passwords. State Senator Cecil Staton told MSNBC, "We limit where they can live, we make
their information available on the Internet. To some degree, we do invade their privacy ...
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02.01.2009Microsoft, Google, Yahoo Sued for Sex Selection Ads in India
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were issued notices by India's Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a complaint that they were promoting techniques
and products for the selection of an unborn child's sex through advertising and links on their search engines. There is a deliberate attempt by
these companies to target Indian users with advertisements that claim to help in the selection of a child's sex, said Sabu Mathew George, the
petitioner in the case, in a telephone interview on Thursday.
The three companies were unavailable for comment, despite repeated phone
calls to Yahoo in Bangalore, Google in Hyderabad and Microsoft in Delhi. The advertisement of products and techniques to aid in the selection of an
unborn child's sex is an offense under India's "The Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act".
In India, at least 900,000 unborn girls die each year through feticide, said George who is a social activist associated with organizations fighting
for the rights of young girls in India.
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14.08.2008Anti-gay church vows to take control of Microsoft
An evangelical Christian pastor has vowed to take over Microsoft, one of the world's largest companies by packing it with shareholders who will vote
against their policy of advocating gay rights.
The Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former Dallas Cowboys player is the self proclaimed
head of the Antioch Bible Church, based in Redmond, the home of Microsoft's headquarters.
Microsoft has a strong diversity
policy and LGBT staff enjoy a well-funded employee group.
Mr Hutcherson told a shareholders' meeting that he would be the
company's "worst nightmare", threatening that he has the support of not only the 3,500 members of his church, but perhaps also millions of
evangelical Christians and orthodox Jews.
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18.11.2007MySpace to 'block sex offenders'
Social networking website
MySpace says it will release
tools to identify and ban US
sex offenders from its
service.
The company
said the new service will be
the first national database
that brings together about 46
US state sex offender
registers. MySpace is a
personal website tool for
people who use it to post
blogs, music, and videos.
More than 80 million
people have registered a
MySpace page. News Corp bought
the site for 軤m last
year. The new technology,
called Sentinel Safe, will let
MySpace search US state and
federal databases to seek out
and delete MySpace profiles of
registered sex offenders. It
will be available in the next
30 days.
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07.12.2006Anti-Gay Church Vows to Take Control of MSFT
An evangelical Christian pastor has vowed to take over Microsoft, one of the world's largest companies by packing it with shareholders who will vote
against their policy of advocating gay rights.
The Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former Dallas Cowboys player is the self proclaimed head of
the Antioch Bible Church, based in Redmond, the home of Microsoft's headquarters.
Microsoft has a strong diversity policy and LGBT staff
enjoy a well-funded employee group.
Mr Hutcherson told a shareholders' meeting that he would be the company's "worst nightmare",
threatening that he has the support of not only the 3,500 members of his church, but perhaps also millions of evangelical Christians and orthodox
Jews.
"There are 256 Fortune 500 companies alone pouring millions upon millions of dollars into pushing the homosexual agenda," he told
the Daily Telegraph. "I consider myself a warrior for Christ. Microsoft don't scare me. I got God with me."
"I told them that you
need to work with me or we will put a fire-storm on you like you have never seen in you life because I am your worst nightmare. I am a black man with
a righteous cause with a whole host of powerful white people behind me."
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24.11.2007Americans giving up friends, sex for Web life
Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and
one in three giving up friends and sex for the Web.
A survey asked 1,011 American adults how long they would feel OK without
going on the Web, to which 15% said a just a day or less, 21% said a couple of days and another 19% said a few days.
Only a fifth
of those who took part in an online survey conducted by advertising agency JWT between Sept. 7 and Sept. 11 said they could go for a week.
"People told us how anxious, isolated and bored they felt when they are forced offline," said Ann Mack, director of trend spotting at JWT,
which conducted the survey to see how technology was changing people's behavior...
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20.09.2007SNotW: Anti-gay church vows to take control of Microsoft
An evangelical Christian pastor has vowed to take over Microsoft, one of the world's largest companies by packing it with shareholders who will
vote against their policy of advocating gay rights. The Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former Dallas Cowboys player is the self proclaimed head of the
Antioch Bible Church, based in Redmond, the home of Microsoft's headquarters. Microsoft has a strong diversity policy and LGBT staff enjoy a
well-funded employee group. Mr Hutcherson told a shareholders' meeting that he would be the company's "worst nightmare", threatening
that he has the support of not only the 3,500 members of his church, but perhaps also millions of evangelical Christians and orthodox Jews.
"There are 256 Fortune 500 companies alone pouring millions upon millions of dollars into pushing the homosexual agenda," he told the
Daily Telegraph. "I consider myself a warrior for Christ. Microsoft don't scare me. I got God with me." "I told them that you need
to work with me or we will put a fire-storm on you like you have never seen in you life because I am your worst nightmare. I am a black man with a
righteous cause with a whole host of powerful white people behind me." Asked why he as a black man grew up during segregation could advocate
discrimination, Mr Hutcherson said: "How many homosexuals have you ever seen had to ride on the back of a bus? I haven't seen one. I know
that many blacks have in the past.
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18.11.2007Anti-gay church vows to take control of Microso
An evangelical Christian pastor has vowed to take over Microsoft, one of the world's largest companies by packing it with shareholders who will vote
against their policy of advocating gay rights.
The Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former Dallas Cowboys player is the self proclaimed
head of the Antioch Bible Church, based in Redmond, the home of Microsoft's headquarters.
Microsoft has a strong diversity
policy and LGBT staff enjoy a well-funded employee group.
Mr Hutcherson told a shareholders' meeting that he would be the
company's "worst nightmare", threatening that he has the support of not only the 3,500 members of his church, but perhaps also millions of
evangelical Christians and orthodox Jews.
"There are 256 Fortune 500 companies alone pouring millions upon millions of dollars
into pushing the homosexual agenda," he told the Daily Telegraph. "I consider myself a warrior for Christ. Microsoft don't scare me. I got God with
me."
"I told them that you need to work with me or we will put a fire-storm on you like you have never seen in you life because
I am your worst nightmare. I am a black man with a righteous cause with a whole host of powerful white people behind me."
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18.11.2007Facebook Subpoenaed Over Sexual Predator Complaints
The New York Attorney General has subpoenaed Facebook after the company did not respond to "many" complaints by investigators who were solicited for
sex while posing as teenagers on the social-networking site. State investigators, who set up profiles as 12- to 14-year olds, said they were quickly
contacted by other Facebook users with comments such as " u look too hot....... can i c u online, " " do you like sex? " and " call
me if u want to do sex with me. " Investigators said that when they wrote to Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook about their experiences, the
concerns were ignored "many" times.
" My office is concerned that Facebook's promise of a safe Web site is not consistent with its
performance in policing its site and responding to complaints, " said Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. " Parents have a right to know what their
children will encounter on a Web site that is aggressively marketed as safe. " On Monday, Cuomo publicly released a letter to Facebook about its
safety claims with concerns based on several "undercover tests" in recent weeks. The subpoenas seek complaints made to the company and copies of its
policies though the investigation is still in the early stages.
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25.09.2007'Sex' is Favorite in Newest
Top Domain
European Union opens
registration for names under
new top-level domain, .eu...
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