The proposed bill, called of the Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act of 2007, appears designed to take aim at operations such as MySpace, a self-described “social networking service” owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which targets teens and has, through numerous news stories gained a reputation as a stalking ground for pedophiles.
A “discussion draft” Senate version of the bill originally indicated MySpace or similar services that provide free web sites would have to check their customers against a list of registered sex offenders and remove sites identified as belonging to people on that list.
