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Article: MySpace, states reach pact on predator shields
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- January 15, 2008
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MySpace.com, a social networking Web site popular among teens and
young adults, has agreed to security measures aimed at preventing
sexual predators from preying on kids.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett said Monday that
MySpace will allow parents to block their children from creating
accounts, sever links between MySpace accounts and pornography
sites, and create a private "high school section" for users younger
than 18.
The agreement was reached with attorneys general in every state
and the District of Columbia.
Pittsburgh police said sexual predators regularly use the Web
site to troll for underage victims, in Pittsburgh and throughout the
country.
"It is common," said Michael ...