MySpace Finds 40,000 More Sex Offenders, 90,000 Total:

After being subpoenaed by Conn. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal MySpace has identified 90,000 sex offenders that had accounts on MySpace. This is definitely bad news for MySpace that was supposed to be active in deleting accounts that belonged to registered sex offenders.

Let’s hear from AG Blumenthal…

“These convicted, registered sex offenders creating profiles under their own names unmasks MySpace’s monstrously inadequate countermeasures,” Blumenthal, co-leader of the state coalition focused on Internet social-networking safety, said in a statement. “MySpace must purge these dangerous offenders now

While MySpace definitely dropped the ball on this one I still believe that parents should be the first and last line of defense in protecting their kids. You obviously can’t trust MySpace to do it and I would add that you shouldn’t rely on the government to do it either.