[Pete]

Facebook was today accused of a “glaring failure” to implement advice on protecting children online after the conviction of a man for kidnapping, raping and murdering a teenager he ensnared using the social networking site.

Peter Chapman was jailed for life – with a minimum term of 35 years – yesterday for killing Ashleigh Hall, who was 17. The 33-year-old convicted double rapist lured Ashleigh by creating a Facebook profile using the picture of a handsome teenager. Ashleigh’s body was found dumped in a farmer’s field near Sedgefield, County Durham, in October last year.

The Liberal Democrats’ home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, criticised Facebook for not adding a panic button, created by the Home Office’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, to its site. Ceop says the button, a large graphic which once installed features prominently on each profile page and gives internet safety advice, should be added to all social networking websites. Its chief executive, Jim Gamble, said it was “beyond logic” that Facebook and MySpace have not joined.

Huhne told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Facebook has had access to this since 2006 and has not yet put it on its user sites and I think it should.”

Ceop says the button receives thousands of clicks a month. Facebook argues that users can block people from accessing their page or contacting them, or report abuse at its help centre. MySpace said it has “robust procedures” in place to protect young people on its site.

In a statement released today, Facebook said it had “a variety of measures people can use to protect themselves from unwanted contact and we strongly encourage their use”. It said it was “not clear how these two met” but it was “deeply saddened” by Ashleigh’s death.

“What is clear is that Peter Chapman was a twisted, determined individual with an evil agenda who used every online and offline opportunity to meet people,” it said. “This case serves as a painful reminder that all internet users must use extreme caution when contacted over the internet by people they do not know.

“We echo the advice of the police, who urge people not to meet anyone they have been contacted by online unless they know for certain who they are, as there are unscrupulous people in the world with malevolent agendas.”

[Pete]

@thin ice wrote:

@pete wrote:

I’ve never taken offence at banter i take offence at uneccesary insults

dont recall insulting you pete
do recall being on the receiving end of yours though on many occasions

you’ll recall insulting others though as you sew etc

[Pete]

Thats it in ten yrs….Live Aid… about sums up the 80’s musically, the decade that music forgot :lol:

[Pete]

@tictax wrote:

the 80s has just been voted the greatest decade for music over the last 50 years beating the 60,s

These people are obviously mentally disturbed and should be incarcerated

[Pete]

David Icke not Bush

[Pete]

He’s definitely smoking way more than you thats for certain

[Pete]

Asking is this the only f*cking topic in this forum

[Pete]

@thin ice wrote:

thats a blessing you cant get in cus your as dull as they come
im sure annette and welshy miss you though
your dullness would appeal to them

q pete

:wink: which is more than you’d ever do :wink:

[Pete]

I’ve never taken offence at banter i take offence at uneccesary insults

[Pete]

666 is not the number of the beast anymore according a new translation it’s 616

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