In response to advertising industry concerns over Internet security, MySpace.com has removed 200,000 "objectionable" profiles from its social network
Monday April 03rd 2006, 6:08 pm
Filed under: News
By: Sharon Khare
MySpace.com, the social networking website, has removed 200,000 “objectionable” profiles from its network saying that the purged sites included ‘hate speech’ and ‘risque’ material. This is an attempt to reassure parents and advertisers about the safety of the site as it recently attracted criticism over fears that online predators might be interacting with young people using the site.
A number of US schools have banned the website in order to protect students against the threat of online predators even as a 17-year-old high school student was charged with publishing threats to kill two teachers and a 14-year-old girl on MySpace, last month.
The site run by News Corp boasts 65 million users and 250,000 news users each day attracting mainly people betwen 18 and 30 years of age.
Filed under: News
By: Sharon Khare
MySpace.com, the social networking website, has removed 200,000 “objectionable” profiles from its network saying that the purged sites included ‘hate speech’ and ‘risque’ material. This is an attempt to reassure parents and advertisers about the safety of the site as it recently attracted criticism over fears that online predators might be interacting with young people using the site.
A number of US schools have banned the website in order to protect students against the threat of online predators even as a 17-year-old high school student was charged with publishing threats to kill two teachers and a 14-year-old girl on MySpace, last month.
The site run by News Corp boasts 65 million users and 250,000 news users each day attracting mainly people betwen 18 and 30 years of age.
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