Facebook 'Agrees' To Include Panic Button On Its Site

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Facebook has agreed in principle to install a direct link to Ceop to enhance the protection of children against predators in the UK. Talks are also scheduled in the US for next month.


It will now allow users to report suspicious behaviour to the Child and Online Protection Agency (Ceop), including the grooming of children. However, Facebook says it won't be adding the button to users' profile pages.
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I give it 24 hours before they have rampant abuse, or we see some dumb story about how people were blackmailing others for money or sexual services so they "wouldn't get paniced on"
 
This is just dumb. Did any of you read their reason for adding the button? "Concerns about the site's lack of links to the CEOP were raised after convicted sex offender Peter Chapman used the social network to contact and lure 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall to her death."

I get how it's possible for someone to be lured if approached out on the street, but if you're dumb enough to be lured over the internet, I highly doubt you're going to click a predator button before going on your merry way.
 
The lame thing about this "button" is that it doesn't actually do anything. OMG A PERVERT, *PANIC BUTTON* >directed to informational site< OMG TEXT, WHAT DO I DO NOW!?

This button should call authorities, it should call Chris Hansen, and it should call my lawyer. We're going to sue the girl, we're going to sue the girl's parents, we're going to sue the bus driver.
 
Ahh this type of panic can only come from the CCTV nation of the UK. Gotta love a country where taking pictures of your own damn kids makes you suspect of being a pedo. You know your country is already a police state when.
 
I'm sure I had read something about this just the other day, Facebook saying they weren't going to do what they've just agreed to do :/ Of course, it's from the UK :D
 
MajorDomo said:
Facebook has agreed in principle to install a direct link to Ceop to enhance the protection of children against predators in the UK. Talks are also scheduled in the US for next month.
It will now allow users to report suspicious behaviour to the Child and Online Protection Agency (Ceop), including the grooming of children. However, Facebook says it won't be adding the button to users' profile pages.
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I don't see your quoted segment anywhere in the article. :confused:

Either they revised without noting it...or possibly you quoted a related, but incorrect link. (at *any* rate...)

At first, while reading your quote, I was like...wow. :eek: Their acronym would be C.O.P.A.!!
My next thought yielded "Good thing they don't have a two-part acronym..."
<insert F.E.E.L. explanations here>
 
collegeboy69us said:
I give it 24 hours before they have rampant abuse, or we see some dumb story about how people were blackmailing others for money or sexual services so they "wouldn't get paniced on"
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I would have agreed with you, but I haven't seen any reports of abuse yet. But I'm vigilant.
 
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