http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/policing-predators-vigilantes-blast-facebook-for-failing-to-protect-children-20101214-18w8m.html
This article is about Facebook predators who are sharing child pornography pictures and videos, and internet safety experts who believe that the social networking site has failed to put an end to it all. A group page has been made, called Social Network Safety Watch (SoNeSaW) in which they search out pedophiles and report them until their account has been deleted. Unfortunately, it usually takes 50 to 100 reports before a profile is removed, and it can still take a few days after that. Then, the person who has been reported can simply make a new profile, come back and do it all again. Some in the group SoNeSaW want the US government to lay charges on those swapping child pornography.
Unfortunately, online predators can easily get to children without them knowing. They pose as children by using pictures of young kids on their profile and listing that they are still in school on their page. This can help them to convince their victims to send naked pictures or videos of themselves to them. This article states that there are over 500 million users on Facebook, and there is no way that the social networking site can keep up with policing all of them.
I believe that this issue is important because it should be so easy to find and arrest those posting child pornography on Facebook, simply because there are so many users, and people should be able to find the pedophiles. Unfortunately, they are able to block their profiles so only their Facebook friends can see it. I think that Facebook should hire people (if they haven't already) to find the dangerous people using the site and get them removed permanently.
I want to know why Facebook hasn't made it so that, if someone gets reported multiple times on charges of child pornography, they are banned permanently from the computer they are using. This would make the search for pedophiles seem much less hopeless, because every time someone got deleted, we would know that they weren't coming back.
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