Tonight ABC News (TV) had a piece regarding, “Sex offenders on MySpace.” Here’s how I would sum it up:

Sex offenders on MySpace: What the popular-with-those-kids-these-days site is doing about sex offenders (you must say it slow, with emphasis). MySpace has already identified and removed 7,000 accounts of known sex offenders.

So the lesson here is clear: If you’re a sex offender, we want you to remain anonymous on MySpace. However, I must ask: Why can’t sex offenders have MySpace pages? It isn’t like it’s a “site for kids”—it is just a “site”. A bad one at that. What’s the point of banning people who were caught, say, soliciting a prostitute or peeing in public (aka indecent exposure)? Hell, some MySpace profiles are indecent exposure!

There’s registered sex offenders and then there’s registered offenders. You find the former on government websites and the latter on MySpace. Why all the fuss?