New York subpoenas Facebook over user safety

State's attorney general says Facebook ignored complaints about sexual predators


How many of you know someone that is underage and use Facebook? I bet, over half of you do. It is one of the biggest growing online social networks. It is met to be for college students, but there are many users that are young and vulnerable to sexual predators. Facebook has apparently done nothing to make sure that children and young teens are not solicited by pediphiles. It also, contains many graphic pornographic images and videos readily at anyone who uses the network's disposal.
The attorney general of New York (Andrew Cuomo) and other law enforcement officials have been conducting investigations on these claims. They posed as children from ages 12 to 14 and made accounts. During their investigation they found that Facebook did not have any type of indentifying information to set up these accounts. They also were solicited by a number of adults thinking they were children. They found tons of pornographic images and videos that anyone could view, that had an account. Nobody has been able to get any comments from Facebook.
When they tried to contact Facebook posing as children that had been solicited by online predators and the parents of the children they recieve little response. When they did respond they took very long to do so. Once, they responded they took some of the images off the site, but did nothing about various pornography that was being hosted by users of the site or children being solicited by pedophiles.
Andrew Cuomo has issued a subpoena requiring Facebook to turn in all complaints that have been made about the material and solicitation of children. They also must now respond to these issues as well by law. Those of you who have children can image how important it is to take action against this issue. They could be the ones that are actually being solicited by sexual predators on Facebook, or looking at the junk the users put up there. And, if your a legitamate Facebook user that is of age, you will probably see more restrictions on what you can post and what is allowed to be in your profile. You may also have to provide credentials verifying your identity. Like in many cases there are going to be restrictions set, because people are not being responsible and abusing the site.