Family of sexually assaulted girl pursues MySpace lawsuit

The family of a teenage girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on Myspace asked a federal appeals court Monday to revive their lawsuit against the social networking Web site.  However, the Federal judge in Austin, Texas, dismissed the $30 million suit in February 2007, rejecting the family's claim that MySpace has a legal duty to protect its young users from sexual predators.

I wholeheartedly disagree with this ruling.  Myspace markets itself to underage children with Facebook being its College counterpart.  Thus, Myspace has a responsible to do what it can to protect their users and deny sexual predators from access to its site.  As a social networking site that allows everything from bands to children accessing its site, Myspace has an obligation to assure that its users are alotted the same amount of safety they would expect at home.  Yes, there are certain degrees of inherent risk even in ones home but as long as Myspace is proving that they are making reasonable and not half-assed or non-existant attempt to project their users then they should not be held libel.  However, this is obviously not occuring and until this does, their feet should be held to the fire.