Cuomo fights against online sex offenders

On Tues. Dec. 1 Attorney General Andrew Cuomo held a press conference in the Administrative Building on 22nd Street to address the concerns regarding sex offenders on popular Internet networking sites.

According to ABC News, convicted sex offenders have been kicked off these networking sites as a part of a new program to "crack down on predators" on websites like Facebook and MySpace.

"It is incredible to me that you can have other networking sites who could do the same thing that Facebook and MySpace did- take the list and run it against your site, why wouldn't you do that?" said Cuomo in the ABC coverage of the press conference.

In the announcement, the new Electronic Securing and Targeting of Online Predators (e-STOP) law approved by Cuomo, more than 35,000 registered New York state sex offenders were taken off of sites after the first database ‘sweep' went into effect.

"We created e-STOP to help put an end to sexual predators using the Internet as a tool to prey on the innocent," stated Cuomo, quoted from the press release.