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  • So Myspace will be a registered sex offender in Georgia now like the Mother who didn’t do enough to stop her 15 year old daughter from having sex?

  • Now, Myspace doesn’t let you claim to be under 18 in your profile, or search for under-18-year-olds. They don’t require proof of being over 18 (does anything, besides social security numbers, really tell this? Some under-18s have credit cards, I doubt they could tap into a driver’s license database, etc).

    So what is this “more” that they could do? If a 14-year-old claims to be 18, gets a myspace, meets an adult, and gets abused, well, (s)he’s just defrauded myspace. Victims of fraud, in general, ought not to be legally liable for not seeing through the hoax.

  • Many of these sad stories involve telephone contact at some point. Why doesn’t anyone sue the phone company for facilitating such contact?

  • Why stop there. They traveled and probably fornicated in cars made by giant multinational corporations.

  • Good idea, Nevins– technically, it was all those cars that were violating the old Mann Act, transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes.

    Plus a good dose of litigation like this could really stick the last nail in Amtrak’s coffin.

  • Only one hole in the idea, though–if the GIRL went on HER own, in whatever way, and SHE went to HIM, HE couldn’t be prosecuted even under the Mann Act.

  • “Why stop there. They traveled and probably fornicated in cars made by giant multinational corporations. ”

    Classic one coyote. I might put that on my wall.