According to the Associated Press, a “tween” campsite popped up overnight in Mexico City, Mexico Sunday, Jun 10, as Beliebers (die-hard Justin Bieber fans) camped out hoping to be among the closest fans to the stage for the teenage superstar, Justin Bieber’s free concert in the central plaza set to take place Monday evening.

Dozens of the Canadian singer’s fans, mostly aged 10 to 14 years old, traveled hundreds of miles, some traveling 14 hours by bus, to camp along a street near the Zocalo, the main plaza of the historic center in Mexico City, on Sunday. Many of the young fans were dressed in purple, Bieber’s favorite color, listened to his music on headphones while being chaperoned by their parents. Many of the parents took off work and let their children miss school to be in the audience Monday as they waited in the line that stretched two blocks, filled with vendors selling Bieber merchandise.

The concert is expected to have a crowd of 200,000, many of which will have to watch Bieber from a series of large screens set up near the plaza. More than 5000 police officers will be on hand for the concert to help keep order around the barricades and checkpoints, taking precautions to prevent crushing fans. In a similar concert by Bieber in Norway in late May, dozens of fans were injured due to a stampede of fans attending the show.

“Naturally we’d be worried about safety, but it looks like the government is taking the necessary precautions,” said Monica Gomez, who is waiting in line with daughter Renata, 11, who will be missing school on Monday.

City official Hector Antunano said the fan encampment will get in the show first in recognition for their dedicated efforts. First in line at the encampment was 17-year-old Frida Cross, the president of the Official Justin Bieber Fan Club of Mexico City. As the hundreds of girls in line chanted “Justin,” they seemed to be more worried about the giant cockroaches that roamed the streets than the security and their safety during the concert.

“Most of the fans will be between 10 and 17 years old. There will be a lot of girls. We are being very careful that the majority of the police are women and we are taking precautions so that there is no rush toward the stage,” said Antunano to the Associated Press. The city is determined to avoid issues that will cause fans to be crushed or injured.

Bieber’s new album ‘Believe’ comes out June 19.

Image Courtesy of  Mexican Beliebers

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As millions of children get ready to open their iPhones, iPads, and other smart devices Christmas morning, SkM Consulting sent an urgent “tweet” and letter to Twitter’s CEO demanding that the popular social networking site immediately delete Twitter profiles targeting children with hard-core pornography.

Skillful Means Consulting (SkM), led by lawyer Craig Perra and his wife Michelle, discovered that pornographers are exploiting Twitter’s weak and poorly-enforced anti-porn policy and describe their findings, “Twitter is overflowing with hard-core pornography with no real restrictions to prevent child access.” Attorney Perra states, “If you have an e-mail address, Twitter gives you access to porn.”

The social networking site “supports more than 100 million active users, who fire off 250 million daily tweets,” says Laura Segall at CNNMoney in her December 19, 2011 article. “Children use the site,” says Attorney Perra, “and it is clear that pornographers know this, too. Twitter’s porn problem is prolific. It compromises future investment and advertising dollars from legitimate companies.”

“Porn peddlers tweet kid-friendly search terms like Disney, Toy Story, Bieber, Tinkerbell, along with pornography links, explicit language, and graphic pictures (#disneyporn),” says Perra, founder of vicereport.com.

Michelle Perra, Mother and Chief “WTF” Officer of SkM, explains, “Twitter searches like ‘Tinker Bell’ and ‘Disney’ produce tweets with a children’s picture then linking to extremely pornographic videos and pictures. I never imagined that I’d have to demand that a company fix its #disneyporn problem.

“I was shocked to learn that hard-core pornography was linked to kid-friendly words and that the average age of exposure to Internet porn is 11. My son is 8; the thought is horrifying. One profile picture showed a young woman with a particular bodily fluid covering her face, and another depicting a naked girl spread-eagle with duct-tape over her mouth.”

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