Online chat rooms and social networking communities

They are not being closed but they are being censored alot and watching for minors with adult profiles, they are going to be banned if they get caught.parents are going to have to sign for there minors to have a myspace or facebook account along with others for too many minors are saying they are 18 and this is having predators watching there profile, x rated pictures will be deleted and the 2nd warning will result is suspension of account and ip numbers. This is a good decision being made by the government for these place attract alot of pedifilers and alot of the young girls are searching older men and giving personal information which is causeing many problems, this is for your own safety and with the parents don't being around all the time they can not sensor what there kids are doing online/.

I haven't heard about this yet. I don't think it wold be right to do this and I don't think it would work anyway. People like that are everywhere and shutting down social sites are not going to stop them. I just don't see how it's possible.

I don't think the government can legally do that in the United States. I think it would infringe on our constitutional rights to freedom of speech, the press, and the right of assembly. So, I don't think this is really true, at least in the United States. It's entirely possible that the government keeps tabs on some of these places for certain activities, but I don't think they would be able to legally shut it down. Now, in other countries, I can see them doing that.

The only thing that I have heard recently, is about sites like, Myspace and Utube. I heard that they have been closely monitoring these sites because there has been alot of bulyying on these sites and they are a bad influence on the younger generation and there are alot of stalking people there too, who claim to be a different age and such.

No, I haven't heard anything about this. And you are right that inappropriate people are everywhere and we just have to be careful off line as well as online for these type of people.

i haven't heard about it, but i don't think anyone government can close down a site such as myspace which operates worldwide and besides this would mean almost closing 80 percent of the internet!

I would assume these are all rumors, as I have heard nothing to this sort yet, and I am online all of the time, and belong to a Good Social Networking site as well. I do not think anyone could ever close all of these sites down. They might require stricter rules for most of them, but that is about all.

I have not heard that, but that does not mean that it isn't true. I don't know exactly what that is going to do, they will just go somewhere else.

This is the first I've heard of that. I don't use any of them but I know alot of people who do. There's going to be alot of upset people.

i don't see how they could enforce that-it'd be like torrent sites,they could shut down the majors,but more would pop up. i did hear they're trying to make minors joining harder for things like myspace though.

If this is true i didn't now that the government had that type of power to do something like that where the internet is concerned. If they do anything they will start having people watch more of what is posted and make sure that it is not give people the wrong idea.

I have not heard anything about it but I'm with you there are inapprpriate people just about everywhere you go even CHURCH....