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	<title>Comments on: What Does MySpace&#8217;s Child-Protection Deal Mean for Facebook, Bebo, and Google?</title>
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		<title>By: intellisync</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-3022851</link>
		<dc:creator>intellisync</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I also want to point out the child who left a comment that he or she was 10 and whose parent won&#039;t let them have a myspace profile unless it&#039;s private.  That still violates myspace terms of agreement in usage and that no one under 13 is allowed to use. I feel Facebook is safer although I know of an adult who lets her 13 year old daughter log in under using profile and post things on Facebook. When I question if that&#039;s the right thing to do, the parent&#039;s response was it&#039;s not hurting anyone and she is just posting comments.  Is that the right thing to do? These social website are not a necessity in life but a tool to socialize. Life is not dependent upon their existance and certainly not a determining factor in a child&#039;s success in life or learning. I think it should be earned and this entitlement attitude to sign up on these social websites at such young ages is ridiculous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I also want to point out the child who left a comment that he or she was 10 and whose parent won&#8217;t let them have a myspace profile unless it&#8217;s private.  That still violates myspace terms of agreement in usage and that no one under 13 is allowed to use. I feel Facebook is safer although I know of an adult who lets her 13 year old daughter log in under using profile and post things on Facebook. When I question if that&#8217;s the right thing to do, the parent&#8217;s response was it&#8217;s not hurting anyone and she is just posting comments.  Is that the right thing to do? These social website are not a necessity in life but a tool to socialize. Life is not dependent upon their existance and certainly not a determining factor in a child&#8217;s success in life or learning. I think it should be earned and this entitlement attitude to sign up on these social websites at such young ages is ridiculous.</p>
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		<title>By: intellisync</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-3022843</link>
		<dc:creator>intellisync</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know for a fact that children who are not supervised or have parents that do not care are creating profiles on myspace and misrepresenting their age. In most cases these children will also post their picture where you can clearly see that they are children and not the adults they claim to be. In addition, by doing so they open themselves up to sexual predators making it easier to find these children in their random searches on myspace. I can identify an entire community whose parents don&#039;t seem to care and the schools and churches unaware that this is happening. In a few instances the parents who allow their children to misrepresent their ages are coaches and supposed to be role models. So checking the pics is a huge task but might be the only way to confirm misrepresentation of age.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know for a fact that children who are not supervised or have parents that do not care are creating profiles on myspace and misrepresenting their age. In most cases these children will also post their picture where you can clearly see that they are children and not the adults they claim to be. In addition, by doing so they open themselves up to sexual predators making it easier to find these children in their random searches on myspace. I can identify an entire community whose parents don&#8217;t seem to care and the schools and churches unaware that this is happening. In a few instances the parents who allow their children to misrepresent their ages are coaches and supposed to be role models. So checking the pics is a huge task but might be the only way to confirm misrepresentation of age.</p>
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		<title>By: Talisman Programss</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-2620824</link>
		<dc:creator>Talisman Programss</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Talisman Programss</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-2620823</link>
		<dc:creator>Talisman Programss</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is precisely why webinars such as the one below are so important
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is precisely why webinars such as the one below are so important<br />
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		<title>By: Citing Progress, MySpace Says 90,000 Sex Offenders Blocked From Site</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-2614820</link>
		<dc:creator>Citing Progress, MySpace Says 90,000 Sex Offenders Blocked From Site</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] sex offenders off the site has been a big priority for MySpace. A year ago, it struck a child protection deal  with 49 states, which put in place a series of safety measures such as policing the site for [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] sex offenders off the site has been a big priority for MySpace. A year ago, it struck a child protection deal  with 49 states, which put in place a series of safety measures such as policing the site for [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Citing Progress, MySpace Says 90,000 Sex Offenders Blocked From Site &#124; All about MICROSOFT</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-2614658</link>
		<dc:creator>Citing Progress, MySpace Says 90,000 Sex Offenders Blocked From Site &#124; All about MICROSOFT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] sex offenders off the site has been a big priority for MySpace. A year ago, it struck a child protection deal  with 49 states, which put in place a series of safety measures such as policing the site for [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Responding to Subpoena, MySpace Says 90,000 Sex Offenders Blocked From Site</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-2614651</link>
		<dc:creator>Responding to Subpoena, MySpace Says 90,000 Sex Offenders Blocked From Site</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] sex offenders off the site has been a big priority for MySpace. A year ago, it struck a child protection deal  with 49 states, which put in place a series of safety measures such as policing the site for [...]</description>
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		<title>By: madison</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-2505795</link>
		<dc:creator>madison</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am ten my mom wont let me get a myspace Inless Its child proof!</description>
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		<title>By: Breaking: Facebook To Announce Safety And Privacy Deal With 49 States</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-2283443</link>
		<dc:creator>Breaking: Facebook To Announce Safety And Privacy Deal With 49 States</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the 49 states made with MySpace last January. (The lone holdout in both cases is Texas). As I noted back then: Today’s agreement between MySpace and nearly all the states attorneys general to bulk up [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the 49 states made with MySpace last January. (The lone holdout in both cases is Texas). As I noted back then: Today’s agreement between MySpace and nearly all the states attorneys general to bulk up [...]</p>
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		<title>By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ &#187; MySpaceの児童保護対策がFacebook、Bebo、Googleに与える影響</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1991120</link>
		<dc:creator>TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ &#187; MySpaceの児童保護対策がFacebook、Bebo、Googleに与える影響</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: bebo</title>
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		<dc:creator>bebo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bebo Developers is the name of a dynamic quality assertive and low cost team of developers who expertise in developing Face book, Open Social applications that include Bebo, LinedIn and iGoogle widgets.
Possessing some of the best available talent present we are proud to have developed a
Wide range of deployed applications that rank amongst the highest used by everyday Face book and Open Social applications. The increasing popularity of Face book 
Applications has made every businessman want to get his hands on a Face book application that increases his market and product and this is where Bebo Develop.
Visit now: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bebodevelopers.com&quot;http://bebodevelopers.com&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bebo Developers is the name of a dynamic quality assertive and low cost team of developers who expertise in developing Face book, Open Social applications that include Bebo, LinedIn and iGoogle widgets.<br />
Possessing some of the best available talent present we are proud to have developed a<br />
Wide range of deployed applications that rank amongst the highest used by everyday Face book and Open Social applications. The increasing popularity of Face book<br />
Applications has made every businessman want to get his hands on a Face book application that increases his market and product and this is where Bebo Develop.<br />
Visit now: &lt;a href=&#8221;http://bebodevelopers.com&#8221;http://bebodevelopers.com&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Amanda Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1925139</link>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Hall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I disagree that it&#039;s MySpace&#039;s responsiblity to protect the kids, but I also think parents could use some peace of mind and perhaps a break.  I for one, am very watchful of my 15-year old son, but I cannot be sure of everything all of the time.  

There is patent pending technology that&#039;s available now, that quickly confirms the age and identity of individuals seeking membership in social networking sites.  My husband and his business partners created it.  We hope MySpace, Facebook and the like will accept our requests to meet with them soon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I disagree that it&#8217;s MySpace&#8217;s responsiblity to protect the kids, but I also think parents could use some peace of mind and perhaps a break.  I for one, am very watchful of my 15-year old son, but I cannot be sure of everything all of the time.  </p>
<p>There is patent pending technology that&#8217;s available now, that quickly confirms the age and identity of individuals seeking membership in social networking sites.  My husband and his business partners created it.  We hope MySpace, Facebook and the like will accept our requests to meet with them soon.</p>
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		<title>By: Ashy</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1924379</link>
		<dc:creator>Ashy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>those measures won&#039;t stop a single pedophile</description>
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		<title>By: Chascat</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1922427</link>
		<dc:creator>Chascat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I use Myspace on a regular basis and am very happy to know that they look at everything!  It makes me feel a little safer.  But I basically go by the rule to not really talk to anybody I don&#039;t know.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I use Myspace on a regular basis and am very happy to know that they look at everything!  It makes me feel a little safer.  But I basically go by the rule to not really talk to anybody I don&#8217;t know.</p>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1921389</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>D.P.  @#20 I&#039;d argue that the COPPA Act is law... so clearly the government is not above forcing websites to place protections in place... lets not forget what happened to Zanga a while back with their $1M fine for failing to validate ages from brithdays provided.  Ouch.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>D.P.  @#20 I&#8217;d argue that the COPPA Act is law&#8230; so clearly the government is not above forcing websites to place protections in place&#8230; lets not forget what happened to Zanga a while back with their $1M fine for failing to validate ages from brithdays provided.  Ouch.</p>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1921386</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>good post Erick!!  I wouldn&#039;t mind if you dug up some more minutia on this topic and gave us a graphical metric of: &quot;The websites that care about your kids (and some that want to help people hurt them).&quot;  even though that&#039;s more of a Duncan-esque title... hehehe... you get the idea.

this is a serious matter and something i&#039;d like to see given more attention (as a parent of 3)... lord knows i loathe myspace but i give them props for leading the way, preempting yet ANOTHER issue... (this is not the first time they&#039;ve foreseen things...) child privacy and protection issues are going to be huge this year. Mark my words. MySpace will be given credit in the press for the decisions they made BEFORE the fireball started rolling (their actions might even start the ball, for that matter... they didn&#039;t create the ball, but they are showing they are more than willing to give the ball a heavy push down the hill.)

p.s. @ #8... LOL @ facebook... facebook is so last year... they can join microsoft... by that i mean, the living dead.  (Dead in the water with a crap business, but enough money to keep the machines going for too long.) Zuckerberg is just smart enough to be dangerous to himself... hehehe, he cannot run that company efficiently as he has proven time and again... and he&#039;s also proven that he has no business being interviewed on 60 minutes... lol.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>good post Erick!!  I wouldn&#8217;t mind if you dug up some more minutia on this topic and gave us a graphical metric of: &#8220;The websites that care about your kids (and some that want to help people hurt them).&#8221;  even though that&#8217;s more of a Duncan-esque title&#8230; hehehe&#8230; you get the idea.</p>
<p>this is a serious matter and something i&#8217;d like to see given more attention (as a parent of 3)&#8230; lord knows i loathe myspace but i give them props for leading the way, preempting yet ANOTHER issue&#8230; (this is not the first time they&#8217;ve foreseen things&#8230;) child privacy and protection issues are going to be huge this year. Mark my words. MySpace will be given credit in the press for the decisions they made BEFORE the fireball started rolling (their actions might even start the ball, for that matter&#8230; they didn&#8217;t create the ball, but they are showing they are more than willing to give the ball a heavy push down the hill.)</p>
<p>p.s. @ #8&#8230; LOL @ facebook&#8230; facebook is so last year&#8230; they can join microsoft&#8230; by that i mean, the living dead.  (Dead in the water with a crap business, but enough money to keep the machines going for too long.) Zuckerberg is just smart enough to be dangerous to himself&#8230; hehehe, he cannot run that company efficiently as he has proven time and again&#8230; and he&#8217;s also proven that he has no business being interviewed on 60 minutes&#8230; lol.</p>
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		<title>By: Will Johnston</title>
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		<dc:creator>Will Johnston</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@14, I&#039;d argue that it&#039;s parents&#039; (and schools&#039; if that&#039;s where the kids are accessing the Internet) responsibility to protect children.  Internet != babysitter.  I do think it&#039;s a great thing that social networks are taking these steps, but it&#039;s parents&#039; responsibility.  That would be like saying it&#039;s the responsibility of a mall owner to make sure that all of the 10-year-olds left at the mall by their parents are safe or that the phone company is responsible for the content of the calls that children make.  No, 10-year-old children shouldn&#039;t be at the mall unsupervised, and parents should know who their kids are on the phone with.

But once again, these are great things.  I think another step that could be taken is to allow parents to have a backdoor password to their kids&#039; accounts so that they could easily monitor any private communication that their kids are having instead of just being able to see what is posted publicly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@14, I&#8217;d argue that it&#8217;s parents&#8217; (and schools&#8217; if that&#8217;s where the kids are accessing the Internet) responsibility to protect children.  Internet != babysitter.  I do think it&#8217;s a great thing that social networks are taking these steps, but it&#8217;s parents&#8217; responsibility.  That would be like saying it&#8217;s the responsibility of a mall owner to make sure that all of the 10-year-olds left at the mall by their parents are safe or that the phone company is responsible for the content of the calls that children make.  No, 10-year-old children shouldn&#8217;t be at the mall unsupervised, and parents should know who their kids are on the phone with.</p>
<p>But once again, these are great things.  I think another step that could be taken is to allow parents to have a backdoor password to their kids&#8217; accounts so that they could easily monitor any private communication that their kids are having instead of just being able to see what is posted publicly.</p>
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		<title>By: CanCar</title>
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		<dc:creator>CanCar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In order to let listen to these histories we must be pending of which our children do, to know its friends and knowledge to whom they are related.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In order to let listen to these histories we must be pending of which our children do, to know its friends and knowledge to whom they are related.</p>
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		<title>By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1920840</link>
		<dc:creator>I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What people fail to mention in stories like these is that most sexual abuse is committed by relatives, stepfathers, close friends, trusted authority figures (priests, youth leaders) etc. Not by people on MySpace or in chatrooms or driving round in windowless vans. Grooming obviously goes on, and in a few cases leads to actual abuse, but in terms of &quot;bad things that can happen to children&quot; it&#039;s more emotive than actually significant. Children are in far more danger on the pavement or in the passenger seat of their mum&#039;s SUV than on MySpace.

Obviously parents should monitor their children&#039;s Internet usage, but in general this will probably save between zero and one children from actual abuse. At best this is a PR boost for MySpace and at worst a waste of time and money. For its part the government gets an excuse to stick its nose in to the web community and nose around while bleating &quot;won&#039;t somebody think of teh children&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What people fail to mention in stories like these is that most sexual abuse is committed by relatives, stepfathers, close friends, trusted authority figures (priests, youth leaders) etc. Not by people on MySpace or in chatrooms or driving round in windowless vans. Grooming obviously goes on, and in a few cases leads to actual abuse, but in terms of &#8220;bad things that can happen to children&#8221; it&#8217;s more emotive than actually significant. Children are in far more danger on the pavement or in the passenger seat of their mum&#8217;s SUV than on MySpace.</p>
<p>Obviously parents should monitor their children&#8217;s Internet usage, but in general this will probably save between zero and one children from actual abuse. At best this is a PR boost for MySpace and at worst a waste of time and money. For its part the government gets an excuse to stick its nose in to the web community and nose around while bleating &#8220;won&#8217;t somebody think of teh children&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1920576</link>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is not only the  the duty of all social networking sites to do the best they can to protect children from sexual predators but also the parents and families. How many times do you wonder where were the parents and why aren&#039;t they watching over their children.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is not only the  the duty of all social networking sites to do the best they can to protect children from sexual predators but also the parents and families. How many times do you wonder where were the parents and why aren&#8217;t they watching over their children.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1920541</link>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It shows that Myspace is the best social networking site in my eyes. They keep  adapting and evolving with the needs of it&#039;s user&#039;s. I&#039;ve never really liked Facebook.  You never know where your information is going.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It shows that Myspace is the best social networking site in my eyes. They keep  adapting and evolving with the needs of it&#8217;s user&#8217;s. I&#8217;ve never really liked Facebook.  You never know where your information is going.</p>
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		<title>By: More PR than Protection</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1920456</link>
		<dc:creator>More PR than Protection</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is it just me, or are items No 3 and No 4 on the list of protections completely useless because they rely on information submitted by the user to be truthful? 

You can change your email address, your user name, your IP Address through proxies and delete your cookies.   

Facebook et al need to look towards Device Intelligence technologies that ecommerce vendors and banks have migrated towards in order to fingerprint the machines of known offenders.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it just me, or are items No 3 and No 4 on the list of protections completely useless because they rely on information submitted by the user to be truthful? </p>
<p>You can change your email address, your user name, your IP Address through proxies and delete your cookies.   </p>
<p>Facebook et al need to look towards Device Intelligence technologies that ecommerce vendors and banks have migrated towards in order to fingerprint the machines of known offenders.</p>
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		<title>By: Technology Slice</title>
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		<dc:creator>Technology Slice</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>These social networking sites are responsible for the safety of the young. They have to do whatever is in their power to live up to that responsibility. Having said that there is only so much they can do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These social networking sites are responsible for the safety of the young. They have to do whatever is in their power to live up to that responsibility. Having said that there is only so much they can do.</p>
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		<title>By: wtalk</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1920375</link>
		<dc:creator>wtalk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From this post it would appear like Orkut doesn&#039;t do anything at all. Yes, I think myspace deserves praise on their efforts on this front.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From this post it would appear like Orkut doesn&#8217;t do anything at all. Yes, I think myspace deserves praise on their efforts on this front.</p>
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		<title>By: greggman</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/14/what-does-myspaces-child-protection-deal-mean-for-facebook-bebo-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1920366</link>
		<dc:creator>greggman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can hardly wait until a it&#039;s decided in the interest of not offending anyone that any picture of a woman not completely covered from head to toe is  &quot;inappropriate&quot; and therefore banned.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can hardly wait until a it&#8217;s decided in the interest of not offending anyone that any picture of a woman not completely covered from head to toe is  &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; and therefore banned.</p>
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