Convicted sex offenders living in New York can say goodbye to their social-networking privileges. The state has just booted 3,533 convicted sex offenders off MySpace and Facebook in an attempt to fight online sexual predators. The purge was the
first sweep of registered sex offenders under the Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act (e-STOP), a 2008 law Attorney General Andrew Cuomo aggressively pushed [New York Daily News]. Those removed from Facebook and MySpace will be referred to their parole officers to determine if anyone violated the terms of their release by being on a social networking site. The e-STOP law bans those sex offenders
whose victims were minors from joining social networking sites.
Under e-STOP, New York's 30,000 convicted sex offenders are required to submit their
home, e-mail, and social networking addresses to the state. Authorities say around 27 percent of that pool turned in email or social ...
