MySpace.com: We have zero tolerance for sex criminals

MySpace.com: We have zero tolerance for sex criminals

Online social networking service MySpace.com has find itself in news for all the bad reasons. The service has been used by sex criminals to find easy targets and they have been criticized by the experts to have done little to control the mess.

The company has now responded by saying that they have zero tolerance for sex criminals on their service. MySpace however said that they are forbidden by law from revealing their identities.

MySpace was recently asked by the US state attorneys general to reveal the identities of the criminals who had accounts on their service.

MySpace chief security officer Hemanshu Nigam said in a statement: “We are doing everything short of breaking the law to ensure that the information about these predators gets to the proper authorities. A few attorneys general have asked us to turn the names of the sexual predators over to them; we are, unfortunately, prohibited by federal and state laws from doing so.”

The US attorneys general had stated in their letter: “Perhaps thousands more sexual predators — not registered or using fictitious names — are lurking on your website.”

They gave MySpace until May 29, 2007 to reveal the names and addresses of registered sex offenders. The company was also asked to reveal the steps they are taking to control this menace.