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Pirro: Social Web Sites 'Breeding Ground For Pedophiles'
WNBC.com
March 1, 2006

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Republican attorney general candidate Jeanine Pirro says social networking sites such as MySpace.com have become a "breeding ground for pedophiles" and need to be better policed.

In a letter to Rupert Murdoch, the head of media conglomerate News Corp., which owns MySpace, Pirro suggested a forum between site owners, parent groups and law enforcement experts to come up with new ways to protect children. MySpace has 60 million users, a quarter of them registered as teens.

Parents, school administrators and police are increasingly worried that teens could fall victim to predators through sites like MySpace, which encourages users to build larger and larger circles of friends.

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