17
June
ATTORNEY GENERAL ANDREW CUOMO ANNOUNCES A NEW INITIATIVE TO ENABLE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES TO ELIMINATE IMAGES OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY THURSDAY AT THE YMCA IN FAYETTEVILLE
syracuse.com/Frank Ordonez
Cuomo visited the YMCA in Fayetteville to talk about his efforts against childpornography and sex offender, one of many news conferences he has given across the state on thatsubject in the past year. The attorney general announced his staff provided a database of8,000 child pornography images to Facebook and MySpace, and those social networking websites haveagreed to use digital technology to prevent those 8,000 images from being posted on theirsites. Cuomo said he will press other social networking sites to do the same. Inapplauding Cuomo at the news conference,