More than 2,100 registered N.C. sex offenders were on MySpace.
Attorney General Roy Cooper announced today that the social networking site turned over the names, IP and e-mail addresses of 2,116 convicted sex offenders in response to a subpoena.
"It's no secret that child predators are on these web sites," he said in a statement. "Turning over information about these predators to law enforcement helps, but MySpace, Facebook and other social networks need to do much more to protect kids online."
After a public tussle with Cooper in 2007, MySpace released the names of 245 registered sex offenders it found on its Web site. At the time, some tech observers questioned why Cooper did not just issue a subpoena.
In keeping with a gentler approach of recent months, Cooper struck a more conciliatory tone today, noting that MySpace was the first social networking site to develop technology to find and remove sex offenders.
Since Dec. 1, it has been against state law for sex offenders to belong to sites where children are also members. Cooper is forwarding the information to local sheriffs, the State Bureau of Investigation's Computer Crimes Unit and probation officers.
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Re: Cooper: 2,116 sex offenders online
What a flurry of stuff from the AG.
Seems there's a "pin the tail on the demon" daily - don't it?
Should we bate breath for the tomorrow's "demon dejure"?
Wonder if this is to deflect his self-approval backfire (he thinks he's done great things regulating the finance industry) onto something else... anything else...