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MySpace sued for $30 million
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superbovine said:
If you're a big enough target, someone will sue you. I'm just waiting for the first MacRumors lawsuit.
Don't hold your breath.Flowbee said:If you're a big enough target, someone will sue you. I'm just waiting for the first MacRumors lawsuit.
And as for MySpace, it must be stopped!
No, but seriously, I blame the mother. She obviously doesn't know much about the internet.
"No one is more committed to Internet safety than MySpace." HA!
Flowbee said:If you're a big enough target, someone will sue you. I'm just waiting for the first MacRumors lawsuit.
If there aren't any G5 Powerbooks by next Tuesday I say we start a class action lawsuit.
What's to keep any other web site where people can talk to each other, including MacRumors, from being subject to the same charges?
We have a minimum age for registration, but no security force to check if anybody has cheated, and no monitoring of private messages.
We have a minimum age for registration, but no security force to check if anybody has cheated, and no monitoring of private messages.
Nothing you could type
Can cause me to gripe bout my space
Id talk to any foo
Who I think sounds coo on my space
Sendin pics to a guy
In an e-mail letter
I aint old enough
And I should know better
But I'm shootin from the heart
Cause I aint too smart on my space.
Can cause me to gripe bout my space
Id talk to any foo
Who I think sounds coo on my space
Sendin pics to a guy
In an e-mail letter
I aint old enough
And I should know better
But I'm shootin from the heart
Cause I aint too smart on my space.
It makes me sad that parents refuse to take responsibility for their lack of parenting and/or lack of determination to be good parents. They can't know everything but they need to know anything and everything about their children.
When I see someone who is underage on MySpace, I report them. They'll be angry but it's not just one of them. Their friends will be there so that makes 20-30 of them.
The trouble is that, they're all angry afterwards and they go to create a new profile right away and MySpace allows it to happen. As well, the parents still don't know. Do the parents care? Should there be idiot lights on children so parents know when it's too late?
When I see someone who is underage on MySpace, I report them. They'll be angry but it's not just one of them. Their friends will be there so that makes 20-30 of them.
The trouble is that, they're all angry afterwards and they go to create a new profile right away and MySpace allows it to happen. As well, the parents still don't know. Do the parents care? Should there be idiot lights on children so parents know when it's too late?
Doctor Q said:
Maybe MacRumors should just sue her for potential loss of revenue for a possible lawsuit that she may sick on MacRumors for possibly "endangering" her child... ONLINE!!
While I wouldn't miss MySpace if this lawsuit brought it down, this woman doesn't have a leg to stand on. Elvis Shaking his hips got girls pregnant in the 50s, Marilyn Manson's Music made kids kill themselves in the 90s, and now MySpace gets girls assaulted. This mother doesn't have a legal leg to stand on, and I hope she doesn't get a dime.
Yeah... child molesters are no longer sitting around in trench-coats handing out lollypops. They are on MySpace.
Maybe people should have internet licenses like drivers licenses.
*sigh*
Maybe people should have internet licenses like drivers licenses.
*sigh*
OutThere said:
I've believed for several years now that people should have certificates of intelligence before being allowed to leave the house...
I'm only half kidding
15 years ago I thought it would be wonderful if everyone could get onto the internet.
Then AOL turned on Usenet access and went 'all you can eat'.
Then AOL turned on Usenet access and went 'all you can eat'.
Right! I'm having you pal!!
That's 50 million right there. Calling me stupid. mutter.superbovine said:
Myspace is a horrible website, but I think this woman is a complete dumbass. she should get fined for wasting everyone's time.
myspace is the worse thing to happen to the net in the last year or two. I agree this lawsuit is pointless, but I wouldn't lose any sleep if myspace were shut down.
I would gain sleep. It would mean my girlfriend wouldn't keep me up all night asking questions about HTML, trying to make her myspace look cooler. She's a dork.dornoforpyros said:
I agree completely. I'm sorry, but it's absolutely absurd to think that this is MySpace's responsibilty. If it's true that they don't have any kind of age-police, it doesn't really matter, (while not a member myself) I would highly doubt that this girl actually read the terms of agreement that she skipped past during registration. The ones that probably legally absolve MySpace from prosecution based on not meeting the proper age status.adk said:
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Personal Rant:
I hate what sites like MySpace (and FaceBook) have done to communities, both online and real. I work on a college campus and seeing the types of persecution, and above all, stupidity that are created by the existence of these sites is mind-boggling. Like adk said, I wouldn't miss MySpace for a minute if it disappeared completely, but I don't care who you are, what your beliefs are, or what your past experience is: parents are responsible for parenting. It is not the job of the public schools (local debate) it is not the job of musicians, artists, video-game manufacturers, or websites.