MySpace Cutting Links to Adult Sites
 

http://xbiz.com/news/88818

LOS ANGELES ? Social networking giant MySpace has entered into an agreement with 49 states that includes the elimination of all links to adult websites, according to one state Attorney General who has signed on to the plan.
The move is part of a plan to fight online predators targeting children, and according to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, includes a commitment by MySpace to "Obtain and constantly update a list of pornographic web sites and regularly sever any links between them and MySpace."

"Kids face a real danger on web sites like MySpace because they never know who they are communicating with online," Shurtleff said. "This agreement recognizes the intentions of MySpace to make improvements but it is my hope that all social networking sites will find additional ways to protect children."

Such a move would pose further challenges for legitimate adult marketers that rely on receiving traffic from these popular portals to fuel their websites ? an especially popular option for solo-model and personality website owners.

As part of its agreement with the state attorneys general, MySpace will:


Strengthen software identifying underage users;
Retain a contractor to identify and eliminate inappropriate images;
Allow parents to send their child's e-mail address so MySpace can restrict the child from signing in or creating a profile;
Obtain and constantly update a list of pornographic web sites and regularly sever any links between them and MySpace;
Create a closed "high school" section for users under 18;
Implement changes making it harder for adults to contact children;
Dedicate resources to educating children and parents about online safety;
Provide a way to report abuse on every content page, consider adopting a common mechanism to report abuse and respond within 72 hours to abuse reports.
MySpace will also create and lead an Internet Safety Technical Task Force; which in conjunction with the attorneys general and other social networking sites, experts and groups will develop improved Internet safety practices.

Reports will be issued quarterly, with a report on the group's formal findings and recommendations planned for a late 2008 release.

That's a real no-brainer.

yeah really.

which state held out?

Good news imho

Most likely Florida.

how are they going to enforce the "highschool" group? Anyone can lie to get on the page?

it took long enough.

they need to learn how to make their servers run. shits slow!

Can I buy stock in that adult peep site that turns into hahahahhah when I write it?

I always thought MySpace was lame... it just got lamer . . . .

Where is our group to point out that adult sites have nothing to do with child pornography and online child predators.

opps oh thats right, we only have a joke group into this to make their salaries and thats it.

they recently severed links to my site portfolio - re-routed to default myspace landing page instead

Texas
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Good.

That'll make people go back to SE's to a degree... for what they want, when they want it.
That's the way it should be, not having gigantic sites start competing with SE's for our traffic - it would be a nightmare to depend on all "social" sites as marketing channels.

Yeah it is so much better to do that and be lumped in with child predators. :2 cents:

Why would you wanna market your site towards people that enjoy posing in front of mirrors?

long time coming

damn i think im the only one that notice that! :pimp

Who ever said the internet was for kids?

That said, I haven't promoted on Max Cash simply because of the large underage population.

i know some follks who just lost revenue

Exactly.
:disgust

You would think that someone over there could see that actually helps the real predators, not hinders them.

They deleted all my blog posts.. they had links to adult sites.. heh..

Didn't someone make one of those already? x peeps or something like that?

ah well..

WTF does adult links have to do with that. remove links to google images while you're at it ...

souuuuuunds good though... let's forget the fact that the whole place is infested with pedo's like fleas on a camels nuts

How does restricting adult sites stop online predators targeting children? Predators do not pretend to be adult sites, they pretend to be underage peers.

By this logic we can stop bears from eating fish by removing all the fishing poles from all the stores that sell them.

When someone comes up with this type of restriction, they should be tested to see if they ate too much lead paint when they were kids.

Yep, thank bad parents and irresponsible breeding for all of this and the world's problems.

Super.
There goes our myspace page then. :warning