New York AG Suing Social Network Tagged.com for Child Porn
New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo accused the social networking site Tagged.com on Thursday of not responding to user reports of child pornography and sexual solicitation of minors, which has allowed the popular site to become a place where sexual predators can exploit children.
Cuomo sent a letter to the site, which claims 5 million users. The letter announces his intent to sue the site for violating trade laws by not adhering to its promises to keep the site safe.
With the pending suit, Tagged.com becomes the latest social network to be accused of not adequately policing their sites for sexual predators and inappropriate images. In its heyday, MySpace claimed it was too technically difficult to keep offenders off its site, a claim belied by Wired.com’s Kevin Poulsen, who wrote a computer script that identified 744 registered sex offenders’ MySpace accounts, leading to the arrest and conviction in New York state of a known sex offender Andrew Lubrano.
The attorney general had employees create accounts on Tagged and report child-porn images. Some of what they found included a bestiality-themed image involving a girl who looks younger than 10 and a picture of an adult performing oral sex on a girl younger than 10, according to the letter.
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