Sex offenders in NY are booted from social media sites
“New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that more than 3,500 sex offenders from his state have been purged from Facebook and MySpace.”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10406914-238.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
Although this is the first I have heard about sex offenders being removed from social media sites it has apparently been common practice for some sites, like Facebook and Myspace, to remove registered sex offenders. This appears to be one of the larger instances however, resulting in thousands of eliminated profiles. While for obvious reasons it seems like a good idea removing potentially dangerous people from internet communities it still seems a bit strange that committing certain crimes can effectively ostracize from cyber communities on top of your real physical community.
