It was a judge who ordered him not to use the internet for a specific period of time. How that judge had the right to do that is beyond me.
The Internet is a way to speak now a days, this would be the same as the judge ordering him not to write letters.
If he was using the internet to carry out fraud?
And this movie may have been one more fraud - it can’t have cost as much as some reports say.
How obama, the courts and the government do a lot of things is beyond ALL of us.
If they can order you not to use the internet, they can order you not to use the phone, listen to the radio, watch T.V. or speak at all. Most people you tell this to will say “Oh, they won’t go that far.”
That is actually a fairly common condition of probation. The thing to remember about conditions of probation is that the alternative is jail.
Judges have wide latitude to impose whatever they wish as parole terms. The person can refuse and do jail time. But if they accept probabtion then they accept the terms. I suppose a judge could order him to stand on his head in public every day and recite apologies if he wished.
They guy is screwed if he violated parole terms. Normally nothing would happen but now the feds are after him and will find a way to screw him over, e.g. Jaywalking, whatever it takes
I believe it was check fraud was his original sentence.
If the guy violated probation, there should be a response..but we need to watch if it is within the ‘average” consequences.
It's a standard condition of probation for people convicted of computer-assisted frauds, as this guy was (he stole social security numbers off the internet and used them to open phony bank accounts).