MySpace officials said about 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from its huge online social networking Web site.

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said Tuesday the new figure is nearly double what MySpace officials originally acknowledged last year when detailing who had used their site.

"This just confirms what we in law enforcement already know -- that child predators are using social networking sites to prey on kids and that we must keep pushing these sites to clean up their act," he said. "Technology should play a role in keeping children safe on the Internet, and social networking sites must put better safety tools in place to keep these predators away from our kids."

Cooper and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have led the charge seeking efforts to make social networking Web sites safer. MySpace officials sent the numbers to Blumenthal's office Tuesday.

Last year, the attorneys general received agreements from MySpace and rival online networking site Facebook to push toward making their sites safer for young users.

Both implemented dozens of safeguards, including limiting how older users can search members younger than 18.

source: thebostonchannel.com

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