To: My Favorite Headache
TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE!
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The tens of thousands of people that sign up on MySpace each day? MySpace will never shut down...bank it.
15 posted on
04/20/2006 12:44:25 PM PDT by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE!
I respectfully disagree. Myspace is a 'honeypot'. Without it, this wouldn't have been uncovered.
18 posted on
04/20/2006 12:44:56 PM PDT by
tje
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Why???
It is just a website...
Myspace was not around when Columbine happened... yet those two freaks still managed to kill people...
- plewis1250
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE! Ar you crazy, or just kidding?
Without it, these kids would likely have still planned it - just not in a way that could be monitored. I say keep MySpace up, and keep it under observation.
20 posted on
04/20/2006 12:45:51 PM PDT by
Antonello
(Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
No! Leave it up! Cops are having a field day trolling around and uncovering all kinds of crap.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE!
And that would help how? There's always going to be problems with sites that have kids on them - unless you think myspace is any worse than any other provider, I don't see how shutting them down would help. They'll go somewhere else and post the same stuff. At least myspace is based in this country and helps with investigations where child molesting/assault is being investigated. What happen you close down myspace and the next popular posting spot is from another country?
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE!"
I see. MySpace claims to have 70 million subscribers. You'd remove this popular site, full, mostly of innocuous little web pages, because someone posted a plan, real or bogus, to do something?
In some ways, MySpace helps authorities find this stuff and arrest the perps before they do something. No doubt, some other MySpace user saw this on MySpace and reported it to the authorities.
Would you rather these kids just wrote their plans down on a paper journal that nobody saw until after they shot up their school?
25 posted on
04/20/2006 12:47:30 PM PDT by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Take a gander at Livejournal and Xanga too.
The problem is more parental visibility into what their kids are posting and who they are trading cell phone pictures with.
I do not want the government to come in and regulate even a small corner of the web. That would be the camel's nose under the mouse.
26 posted on
04/20/2006 12:47:41 PM PDT by
DBrow
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE!Seems to be working fine. These kids were dumb enough to post their plans for destruction on MySpace for all to see. I'd be worried if MySpace was shut down and nimrods like these 5 didn't have a place to brag about their pending criminal plans.
28 posted on
04/20/2006 12:49:03 PM PDT by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The thing about MySpace is the freedom on it for people of all ages across the globe at NO COST. There are a few popular sites just like it as well...
http://www.etwine.com/
Is another example and offers users even more in the way of things than MySpace.com does...these sites serve purpose for a lot of reasons for millions each day and if this uncovered a plot to kill dozens of kids in 30 mins? I say keep it open.
32 posted on
04/20/2006 12:51:00 PM PDT by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Shut it down? What kind of
patriotic American are you? Or have you forgotten about this lil' thang?
And don't gimme that
"safety" or
"Protect the kids!" argument, neither....
Ben said it best.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755
44 posted on
04/20/2006 1:02:32 PM PDT by
Crispus Attucks Patriot
(The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Let's just admit the failure of the 30 year social experiment and put God back into the schools where he belongs.
The vacuum that his absence created drew in the most vile stuff.
49 posted on
04/20/2006 1:07:02 PM PDT by
HipShot
("Remember the first rule of gunfighting... have a gun." --Colonel Jeff Cooper)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE! I'm no fan of myspace.com
But if it wasn't for that site .. this plot might not have been uncovered and stopped
51 posted on
04/20/2006 1:10:19 PM PDT by
Mo1
("Stupidity is also a gift from God, but it should not be abused." Pope John Paul II)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I'm a recently retired high school teacher who was in charge of the school's technology. I used to monitor our students postings on MySpace and Live Journal. You wouldn't believe how many problems were prevented because we were one step ahead of the kids.
52 posted on
04/20/2006 1:11:07 PM PDT by
debg
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Shut it down my ass, this is a wonderfull place to find these nutballs.
58 posted on
04/20/2006 1:23:59 PM PDT by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE! Why? It seems like a good resource to identify and snag these psychos.
63 posted on
04/20/2006 1:29:19 PM PDT by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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