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State Attorneys General Trash Internet Safety Study, But Still Can't Provide Data To Counter It

View the article here Of course, they don't want to know the truth, because then they could not use the fear-mongering of sex offenders to get votes and distract the public from the dying United States! 02/03/2009 from the maybe-it's-not-such-a-big-threat-after-all dept Last month, a wide-ranging panel of experts did a big study and found out that the risks of online predators stalking kids on social networks was totally overhyped -- something that we'd seen in previous studies, though none as wide-ranging and comprehensive. These results shocked and upset the group of 49 state attorneys general who have been pushing hard to force social networks to implement a variety of mechanisms to "protect" against this threat that really isn't that big...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 07, 2009 (boomark / email).