Comments on: Court: MySpace not liable for offline assaults

Consistent with other federal rulings, court rules that a Web service can't be held responsible if a minor is assaulted offline by someone whom he or she meets online.

[alflanagan]

Well, duh.

[todd3617]

Isn't this obvious. It's like trying to say a school is responsible if a kid gets beat up on their property. And the girl that lied about her age, well she had it coming to her. I see all sorts of kids on Myspace that say they are way older than they look. Parents should be the ones that get sued.

[pentest]

You are disgusting.

She "had it coming"?

She acted foolish and is a hard life-lesson, but she did not deserve it.

[RobertAPierce]

Wow, you mean, like, it's really the parents who should be making sure their kids are not doing anything dangerous? Not Myspace? Who would have thunk it? ;)

[BtmnHatesRbn]

Since parents are now my age...and my generation is full of stupid people...ergo...

[berg0011]

<Rant>Giving kids unrestricted internet use without any monitoring tools... ect. is asinine and is the equivalent of dropping your kid off in the middle of a city at 2 AM... It's not a good idea and these parents are not tech savvy/ privacy savvy enough and them and their kids shouldn't be allowed near the internet!!!!</Rant>

[Harrison912]

I completely agree, berg0011. It's time parents took responsbility for their children's safety and security online as well as off line. Blaming it on someone else is just weak. One of the reasons I opened my online safety and security web site is so I can bring to our communities products to help parents be more vigilent. There are lots of things parents can obtain to help them with their family's safety such as non-lethal protective devices, electronic child leashes to help alert parents of a wandering toddler, nanny cams to help parents keep an eye on their children when they're away and keyloggers to help parents monitor their teens online presence.

We're all busy but we should never be too busy to keep our children and teens safe. There's plenty of help out there if you jus know where to look for it. Money can be tight but some how we find money for eating out, for toys, for cars that we don't really need and other frivalities so why not invest in some products to keep your family safe? The court is right, it's not MySpce's job to do this.