Are Dating Apps Allowing In Registered Sex Offenders? A House Subcommittee Is Investigating
A House subcommittee is investigating popular dating services such as Tinder and Bumble for allegedly allowing minors and sex offenders to use their services.
Bumble, Grindr, The Meet Group and the Match Group, which owns such popular services as Tinder, Match.com and OkCupid, are the current targets of the investigation by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform subcommittee on economic and consumer policy.
In separate letters Thursday to the companies, the subcommittee is seeking information on users’ ages, procedures for verifying ages, and any complaints about assaults, rape or the use of the services by minors. It is also asking for the services’ privacy policies and details on what users see when they review and agree to the policies.
Although the minimum age for using internet services is typically 13 in the U.S., dating services generally require users to be at least 18 because of concerns about sexual predators.
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The Propublica report referenced in this article not only added people merely accused but not convicted of crimes, it struggled to find cases where registered persons were involved in any of these alleged assaults.
So they’re making noise out of a few isolated cases out of millions.
I have personally used two dating sites mentioned in the article and never had any issues. Only once did I met a complete whack job though the site. It seems not having a car is a bigger stigma on those sites than being a registered person.
On top of that, a sex offender cant use these sites, but literally 95% of the users are just there looking for sex. But they arent frowned upon. Its a common mantra the dating sites are merely just hookup sites. God forbid you buy the girl dinner or give her mo ey for a cab and next thing you know youre arrested for soliticing protitution
Thank God i found my wife on one of these sites before this conversation started.
Who in the hell created a law about the age of 13+ for using the internet? So are we to understand that a 7yo playing on your phone or tablet, that someone is in fact breaking the law? What total absurd load of crap these lawmakers come up with to further this punitive country.
I don’t think any such law exists. I don’t know what they’re talking about.
If the panel finds that sexual results resulted from dating site matches, that in itself is no argument for banning registered sex offenders.
UNLESS it was registered sex offenders who carried out those assaults.
So the question must be asked by the panel: what percentage of these assaults were carried out by persons on the registry? Was it 5%? 3%?
*”If the panel finds that sexual assaults resulted…”
According to these reporters,
They found roughly 150 incidents of accusations OR convictions.
Of those, only 10% involved someone on the registry.
So all this over barely 15 cases.
My two children never would have been born, had these Congressmen had their way. Their mother and I met on a dating app and are raising them together.
What are they trying to do here, protect children??