Faceparty Institutes 'Logan's Run' Policy

In an effort to cut down on sex offenders using their site, up-and-coming networking site Faceparty.com has instituted a policy that reminds some of the 70s film 'Logan's Run.' The site has deleted what it describes as "a huge number of accounts" of its users over the age of 36.
Um, what? "We understand that only a minority of older users are sex offenders, but you must understand that we cannot tell which," the company says in a bizarre explanation of the deletion of users’ accounts. "New [British] government legislation means we need to check older users on the sex offenders list," the company notice continues.
"This legislation is based upon checking email addresses against a government provided list. Faceparty has never insisted on validated email addresses and can therefore not participate in this new scheme."
So I suppose their response is to assume members over the age of 36 are sex offenders. A quick look at the site leaves me the impression that it's an amateurish MySpace imitator and those of us over 36 are probably just as well off being deleted.

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