anandtech forums can ban sex offenders

[FoBoT]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10413499-93.html

Sites owned by Yahoo, AOL, and Google have joined Facebook and MySpace in expelling New York sex offenders from their rolls.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that Google's Orkut.com, AOL's Bebo.com, and Yahoo's Flickr.com are among 13 additional social-networking sites to use sex offender data available through New York's Electronic Securing and Targeting of Online Predators Act (E-Stop) to find and disable accounts associated with registered sex offenders.
Other companies that have agreed to cooperate include BlackPlanet.com, Classmates.com, Flixster.com, Fotolog.com, hi5.com, MyLife.com, Stickam.com, and Tagged.com.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo
(Credit: NY Attorney General's Office)
There are still some holdouts. Cuomo called on other sites, including Friendster.com, Buzznet.com, eSpin.com, Habbo.com, and LiveJournal.com, "to commit to using the list." He urged parents and children to consider not using sites that haven't complied.
On December 1, Facebook and MySpace deleted the accounts of more than 3,500 sex offenders based on the New York law.
By comparing this data with their own user roles, Facebook was able to identify and delete 2,782 registered sex offenders. MySpace deleted 1,796 accounts.

i think it is a responsible step to help protect the members of the anandtech forums to follow suit of the big social networking sites and use this technology

 

[gsaldivar]

Those are all social networking sites though... Are there that many 12-year olds coming to AT to chat with strangers...?

 

[JEDIYoda]

I smell sex offender paranoia...lol

 

[Dualist]

AT isn't really a social network giant, plus it will be highly difficult for the AT staff to crack down on them.

 

[Red Squirrel]

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

guess you can joke about it everywhere but forum issues....