The Internet’s biggest attraction is also its largest short-coming: ANYBODY can publish ANYTHING, almost everywhere. The Internet is cluttered with SPAM sites and fake online identities. Anybody with a free email account can create a user at any of the popular services like YouTube, MySpace and Orkut. Although these websites claim to have millions of users, the realty is that most of these user accounts are probably set up for reasons other than using the services promoted by these sites.

MySpace has made plenty of news as a popular child predator online hang-out. And Facebook, who tried to differentiate itself by claiming that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators, is facing scrutiny from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who subpoenaed Facebook after he said the company did not respond to “many” complaints by investigators who were solicited for sex while posing as 12- to 14-year-olds on the site.

Developers of Radiux believe that the future of the Internet will be determined by online services whose users that can be held accountable for information they provide online.

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