Social Networks Boot Empire State Sex Offenders
Thanks to the implementation of the State of New York’s Electronic Securing and Targeting of Online Predators Act (“E-Stop”), Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that social-networking sites Facebook and MySpace were purging registered sex offenders, disabling 2,782 and 1,796 accounts, respectively, CNET reported.
The E-Stop law bans many registered offenders from using social-networking sites while on parole or probation and requires all of them to disclose e-mail addresses, screen names and “other Internet identifiers,” with that data provided to social-networking sites, according to CNET.
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