{"id":552336,"date":"2007-05-22T21:36:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T21:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552336-myspace-exposes-sex-predators.html"},"modified":"2007-05-22T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T21:36:49","slug":"myspace-exposes-sex-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552336-myspace-exposes-sex-predators.html","title":{"rendered":"MySpace exposes sex predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The move ends a standoff between MySpace and top prosecutors from eight US states that had demanded the identities of convicted sex criminals who have posted their profiles on the News Corporation-owned website. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">State attorneys general subpoenaed MySpace after the website refused to hand over the data on the grounds that disclosure of the private information was barred by US law. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Our subpoena compels this information right away within hours not weeks, without delay because it is vital to protecting children,&quot; said Connecticut state attorney general Richard Blumenthal. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;MySpace has decided to do the right thing, but additional steps are necessary, such as age verification, to protect children from predators on social networking sites.&quot;<i \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MySpace is yielding to demands by US state justice officials that it expose sexual predators that may be prowling the youth oriented social networking website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}