Digital Sex Education
Of 240 suspects identified in Britain, 121 were arrested, with 30 convictions. Some 60 children were "safeguarded" from abusers. Globally 670 suspects were identified and there were 184 arrests and 230 children rescued after internet servers were seized from Amir I, a Dutchman, who ran the website. He is currently on trial accused of abusing a 14-year old Brazilian boy.
A year-long Department of Homeland Security undercover operation targeting prospective "sex tourists" was torpedoed last month after a blogger unwittingly stumbled upon a sleazy web site set up by federal agents and engineered a reverse sting on investigators she mistook for pedophiles
Today Linden Lab announced more concrete plans for separating out adult content from the rest of Second Life. Originally discussed last month, the plans began by soliciting community feedback for definitions of adult content and, eventually, filtering that out of search results and locating it on a separate virtual continent from most of Second Life's activities. The specific plans now include definitions of PG, Mature, and Adult content for ratings and preferences, a more rigorous age verification system, either through payment information or the Aristotle system added in 2007, and the launch of a new viewer with more controls.
The base for the filtering is a new three-tiered rating system that will offer the ability to divide Second Life into Adult, Mature and PG regions. Search results will also be filtered according to the new ratings system. Adult-oriented content will be migrated from the Second Life mainland to a newly created continent.
Text messaging graphic pictures of yourself could soon be legal for teens in Vermont. Lawmakers there are considering a bill that would make it legal for teenagers 18 and under to exchange explicit photos and videos of themselves — an act that's come to be known by teens as "sexting." Under the current law, teenagers could be prosecuted as sex offenders if they get caught sending graphic sexual images of themselves, even if it was consensual.
The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them. Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year. The supposed video files actually were gibberish and contained no illegal images.
Craigslist's chief executive has fired back at an Illinois sheriff who is suing the popular website for promoting prostitution with free classified ads for "erotic services." ... Buckmaster maintains that Craigslist had "very positive communications" in 2007 with the Cook County Sheriff's Office, explaining the legality and intent of the classified-ad website's Erotic Services section. Craigslist says it has since instituted new measures to prevent the website from being used as a tool in the illegal sex trade and implemented an anti-abuse plan endorsed by attorneys general in Illinois and 39 other states.
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