Pirro Attacks a Web Site as a Threat to Youths

Pirro Attacks a Web Site as a Threat to Youths

By JONATHAN P. HICKS
Published: March 1, 2006

Jeanine F. Pirro, the Republican candidate for attorney general, has begun an attack on MySpace.com, the Internet social network for teenagers and young adults, saying that it represents a threat to child safety.

MySpace.com is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who controls the News Corporation, which owns The New York Post, a publication that has often been critical of Ms. Pirro.

In an interview yesterday, Ms. Pirro, a former Westchester County district attorney, said her criticisms of MySpace.com were based on reports that the site is shocking to many parents and, according to the police, is attracting sexual predators.

In a letter to Mr. Murdoch, Ms. Pirro proposed that a forum "be convened as soon as possible" to include executives of the News Corporation and MySpace.com as well as school officials and parent leaders.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/nyregion/01pirro.html

perhaps the worst place on the Internet as it is full of scheming predators, who have lured many innocent young people to depravity, painful disfigurement and horrible death, way before their time.

and so early!

As father of 2 two net-savvy teens, I don't need you to tell me, or my kids, what is 'good' or 'bad' web content. That's my job.

Students have allegedly been suspended for their postings at myspace.com.

Could it be that Republicans are now creating a propagandizing rationale for past infiltration and surveillance of the website?

Is this part of TIA :tinfoilhat: Does the surveillance code need tweaking?

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not the children themselves. And of course she wants to shut it down--unless she can come up with a way to keep the predators from signing on. But why not there? Pirro's logic suggests that all kids should be be locked up at home all day--minus television sets, of course.

:headbang:
rocknation

those fetuses have taken breath outside the womb?

Therefore, they are beyond the concern of a Repuke . . .

and a blatant one at that. 'the site is shocking to many parents'. to those parents who are too goddamned lazy to care about how their child spends their time online maybe. one more case of republicans finding an excuse to abrogate their responsibility as parents if you ask me. funny. i wonder what this pirro would think of IRC, yahoo! chat, msn messenger, and all the other places that CHILDREN gather to talk. what a joke, but a sad one, considering they'll likely see if they can use this to control net access somehow.

that people are foolish to put any personal information or carry on any correspondences there..

at our kids, this is a related development imo.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_4303.shtml

on edit: The Rendon Group, The Lincoln Group and other perception management businesses have been awarded many contracts by this administration. Rumsfeld has a Roadmap in regards to this.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/index.htm

More and more fundies and conservatives have suddenly decided myspace.com is evil.

They have no shame.

There are sexual predators making use of MySpace to track down victims. HOWEVER. There are also sexual predators at the mall, the grocery store and down the street. That does not, in itself, make any of these places "bad".

As always, it's important to be alert when associating with initially unfamiliar people, especially with the anonymity of the internet. You can usually tell when someone's pursuing a conversation with you for the wrong reasons.

If your kid's very young, I wouldn't personally endorse letting them use MySpace (or any part of the internet, for that matter) without supervision. As they get older, just make sure they're aware of the dangers of handing out unnecessary personal information on the net. Sexual predators aside, that also opens you to identity theft and any number of other crimes.

But he Internet is making it that much easier for them. If any of you watched the "Dateline" sting, the one near me in So Cal, all of the men who showed up, some 60 of them, were on MySpace looking for victims. Trolling the Internet in their own homes much more convenient than trolling the malls. I don't want to be a "net nanny" either, but parents need to understand that sites like MySpace aren't just kids talking to each other. Kids give out their names, ages, the school they go to, enough personal information for bad people to use to lure them. Really scary.

How typical that someone like Murdoch, who wears his conservatism like a suit of armor, would buy a site that is now in the news for attracting pedophiles. And the sheep at Faux are falling over themselves to avoid this story. It would be funny if it weren't so sick.

Teens should be able to use MySpace, and your political grandstanding means shit. Granted pedophiles are a problem online, but I don't believe that you can just blame MySpace for it (how are they supposed to keep track of a person's age?) But at least she's attacking Rupert Murdoch. Maybe the NY Post won't support her campaign :)
I can't wait to see her go down in the Attoreny General race. Has anyone seen page 10?

From the article:

"In the past year, The Post has printed less-than-flattering portrayals of Ms. Pirro, who two months ago announced her candidacy for attorney general.
The paper published unflattering pictures of Ms. Pirro and reminded readers that her husband, Albert, had served time in prison for tax fraud and had been found to have fathered a child out of wedlock."

Murdoch and the NY Post did a hatchet job on Pirro, so now Pirro is going after MySpace.

Seems Rove and Murdoch want Hillary to run unopposed in NY....