Bebo fails to tackle porn, bullying

A GOVERNMENT agency has criticised networking site Bebo for its continued failure to implement a registration process which would root out pornography and bullying on a site used by hundreds of thousands of Irish children.

In April of this year, the National Centre for Technology in Education issued 10 recommendations to Bebo on how they could make their website safer for children to use.

Chief among them was an appropriate registration process whereby the identity of the registered user is confirmed. However, to date, according to NCTE director, Jerome Morrissey, that has still not been done.