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Future of MySpace Could Become More Restrictive

MySpace came under attack over the past year after some of its young members fell prey to adult predators posing as minors.

(MORRO BAY, Calif.) - The profiles of more than 29,000 sex offenders have been tossed out by MySpace, the increasingly popular, worldwide social networking site.

MySpace Bars 29,000 Convicted Sex Offenders

Critics of MySpace are calling for new laws to make such sites safer for children.

(RALEIGH, N.C.) - MySpace has admitted it detected and deleted over 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times the figure it had initially reported.

All of those barred are thought to be based in the US.

The company, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, said it hoped other social networking sites would follow its lead.

Op Ed:
Many Oregonians
Deprived of Developing
Right To Rapid Internet

21st Century Interconnections Essential for All Today As Public Service Responsibility For Real Citizenship

(BEND, Ore.) - any Oregonians today --in the Seventh Year of our Twenty-First Century!-- are still deprived of essential rapid broadband connection to the worldwide Internet now serving other nations more broadly.

Other states, well aware of the greatest technological advantage to occur in the past 100 years, are rapidly providing and promoting wide developments in really-fast new broadband-access and usage.

Oregon House Cracks Down on Internet Sexual Predators

Predators can now be charged with a crime when they attempt to engage in sex with an underage partner, HB 3515 helps prevent that dangerous situation from ever occurring.

(SALEM, Ore. ) - The Oregon House of Representatives has unanimously approved a measure that will make it a crime to solicit minors over the Internet.

Oregon AG Cites Falcon Cable Over High Speed Internet Performance

Hardy Myers says the company's high speed connections weren't doing what they advertised.

(SALEM, Ore) - Attorney General Hardy Myers today filed an agreement that he says will resolve complaints from consumers in the Silverton-Mt. Angel area over the slowness of Falcon Cable's advertised high speed Internet service.

Salem Adds E-Permitting Service

City joins 17 other cities and counties in offering customers online building permits.

(SALEM, Ore. ) - Starting today, contractors building in Salem can buy simple permits from the city any time of the day or night, seven days a week via the Internet at www.BuildingPermits.Oregon.gov.

The site, hosted by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services’ Building Codes Division, allows contractors to apply and pay for multiple permits from multiple jurisdictions in one transaction.

Marion County began offering online permitting in April.

McMinnville, Salem Police Operation Nets Child Porn Downloader

Anyone with information on this case is urged to call Detective Sam Elliott at (503) 434-7418.

(McMINNVILLE, Ore. ) - A McMinnville man is behind bars today after police seized computers, video equipment and pornographic magazines and movies from his McMinnville apartment.

Since March, McMinnville and Salem police have been investigating Internet downloads of child pornography by the man.

Parents Invited to Salem-Keizer Internet Safety Workshop

The Salem-Keizer School District want to help you protect your children from internet crimes.

(SALEM, Ore. ) - The Salem-Keizer School District is holding a Internet Safety Workshop this week to help parents protect their children from internet crimes.

Admission is free, registration is not required, and childcare will not be provided.

The workshop will be held on Thursday, 6:30 PM, at Houck Middle School (1155 Connecticut SE. The workshop will be followed by a legislative update by Rep. Kevin Cameron.

Controversial Stop Snitching Website Identifies Informants Who Work With Police

New Web sites like whosarat.com devoted to exposing the identities of informants who cooperate with the police are making federal prosecutors furious and prompting calls to limit the public access of electronic files and databases.

(SALEM, Ore.) - One of the nation's most controversial Websites, whosarat.com, was the subject of media reports early Tuesday, but where did it go? The site, a target of Justice Department officials, has been off the air Tuesday.

Whosarat.com features the names of people who work as "narcs" for police, typically after they are busted. It is part of the new "Stop Snitching" movement. While it makes families nervous to learn that they are living near a sex offender, this site is designed to warm drug dealers if an informant moves into their neighborhood.

MySpace Will Expose Sexual Predators

MySpace initially took a stand over the attorney general's demand to hand the information over, citing federal privacy laws that prohibit release of personal data without a subpoena.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Pressure from the attorney generals of eight US states means MySpace will hand across information on sex offenders that the site has already tracked down and removed. It was announced Monday, that they would provide the information.

The US state justice officials, top prosecutors in their respective states, say the social networking site exposes its youth-oriented crowd to sexual predators that may be prowling Web in search of victims.