Myspace, my kids, my God
Myspace is providing a way for parents to check up on what their kids are doing on the popular social networking site. The downloadable software codenamed "Zephyr" lets the adults see what name and age their child is using, while still preserving the privacy of email and profiles.
I understand why they're doing this...they're under attack by pretty much everyone. It's funny really, considering Myspace is owned by News corp, the media megalith owned by none other than Montgomery Burns Murdoch himself. The attacks couldn't happen to a nicer company.
However, blaming Myspace for problems with kids on the Internet is like blaming Hugh Hefner because kids read Playboy. How about the parents? What they need is a better way to do age verification and that's it. Let the poor guys alone, their 15 minutes of fame are ticking by and they should have a chance to make it or not on their own business sense instead of being brought down by the "whataboutthekids" legal jackals.
Posted on January 18, 2007
