Who’s going to defend prostitutes and sex offenders, right? No one — that’s what Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is banking on. Blumenthal was the one behind the united Attorneys General sabre-rattling that resulted in Craigslist creating a new set of regulations to govern their Erotic Services sections nationwide, that advocates for sex workers (myself included) have decried as discriminatory, short-sighted, and inneffective at preventing abuse. Now he’s proclaiming that social network sites are “rife with sexual predators” — even after MySpace deleted the profiles of 90,000 “sex offenders” based on matching them against a database that itself is rife with inaccuracy. And after a study from the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard showed what people who actually use social networks know about them: that young people are far more at risk online from bullying from their peers than from unwanted sexual advances from strangers. Even the man profiting from the same sex offender database used by MySpace to pluck offenders from innocents — John Cardillo, CEO of Sentinel Safe Tech Holdings Corp — has said that the Berkman study “shows that social networks are not these horribly bad neighborhoods on the Internet.” Which leaves only one question: does anyone knows what political office Blumenthal’s working his way on up to? Please tell us. And then stop him.