2006 04 09
My SpaceMySpace raggiunge i 67 milioni di iscritti.
La popolare community resta al centro di polemiche per quanto riguarda la poca attenzione rivolta alla protezione dei minori registrati.
All’inizio di Aprile due uomini sono stati arrestati per presunti contatti sessuali con minori (14 e 11 anni), incontrati proprio attraverso MySpace.
Continuano dunque le polemiche, nonostante il fatto che per l’iscrizione venga richiesto di aver compiuto 14 anni, e che MySpace abbia cancellato 250 mila profili di bambini al di sotto di quell’età.

da CnetNews.com

MySpace growth continues amid criticism

By Dawn Kawamoto and Greg Sandoval
Popular community site MySpace is signing up new members at record speed. But along with that growth, the site continues to be the target of controversy regarding the safety of its users, a core group of whom are minors.MySpace, which has accumulated 67 million members since its launch in 2004, is currently growing by an average of 250,000 new members daily, said Dani Dudeck, a MySpace spokeswoman. That phenomenal growth rate has pushed its ranking among popular sites to a par with such notable players as Yahoo. 

With that growth, however, MySpace has come under increasing scrutiny. Earlier this month, for example, two men were arrested in separate incidences for allegedly engaging in sexual contact with minors, whom they met through MySpace. One of the minors was 14 years old and the other was 11.
Ross Levinsohn, an executive with News Corp., which acquired MySpace last year , addressed the steps the site is taking to keep its younger members safe. According to press reports, Levinsohn, who was speaking Thursday before the Bank of America Media Telecommunications and Entertainment Conference in Los Angeles, noted that the site takes down offensive content, from nudity to racist material.
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