danah boyd on the MySpace sex panic that isn’t

“The Attorneys General - mostly angry at me and other researchers - have spent considerable time trying to publicly reject the ISTTF report that was published last month,” writes danah boyd. That is, the Internet Safety Technical Task Force’s findings are being combated not with alternate findings, but with PR, like Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s latest media moment concerning the deletion of over 90,000 “sex offenders” from MySpace. Writes boyd, “We see a number like 90,000 and expect that it’s high and outrageous. But it is not more than would be expected by statistical patterns. And it’s not an automatic indicator of a problem.”

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