New York Investigates Facebook for Harboring Child Predators
New York state Attorney Generl Andrew Cuomo has launched an investigation into social networking site Facebook after New York undercover investigators posed as children as were allegedly solicited by sexual predators.
Cuomo said that agents posing as children were solicited by adult sexual predators and that the agents could easily access pornographic photos. Agents contacted Facebook but their complaints were often ignored. Facebook, to its credit, did take down some of the offending material and close the accounts of some of the predators but to its shame it apparently failed to do so on all and perhaps most of the time.
Facebook is only three years old. It was founded in 2004 in the dorm room of Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, and opened its site to everyone in 2006. The company says it now has more than 42 million users. Unfortunately, some of those users are scum and we should be thankful that Cuomo and his staff are working to keep this wonderful resource as safe as possible for all.
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