Here’s a novel idea: How about keeping them in jail?
Who came up with that lame idea?
How do you enforce it?
Good idea!
I just wish there was a way to actually do it.
It hasn’t become law because it is a brainless idea.
OK, Joe Pedophile is convicted of crime. Joe goes to police and gives email address ‘pedophile@hotmail.com‘, police say ‘thank you good citizen, now behave yourself’.
Joe goes home and signs up on Facebook with ‘pedal-file@hotmail.com‘, calls himself ‘Jerry’.
Oh, you want to talk about IP addresses?
Two words: proxy servers.
And if that’s not enough, pedophiles can always go to public internet sites and get access there.
The idiots who come up with these proposed laws are totally without a clue as to the technical feasibility of their grandiose plans.
Correction: "Britain Seeks to Ban WHITE MALE Pedophiles from Social Network Sites."
This law, of course, is not applicable to MUSLIMS.
In that case, their religion allows for them to be pedophiles since Mohammed was a rampant pedophile.
Gotta be culturally selective with Common Law, you know.
This is bad. Next it will be only government issued email addresses for everyone. The solution to pervs on line is impossible if we value freedom. I really don’t care what pervs do to children on line, because I don’t consider the teenagers talking dirty right back to be innocent. My line in the sand is actually physical contact of a sexual nature, not just showing up or typing on a keyboard 50 miles away.
Just what we need -another law on the books,right that will stop it.
Think about it for a minute and you might figure out why -- although it has been proposed by others who didn't stop to think. The following is an extract of a posted letter on same:
Not only will this do little to nothing to protect children, it has a great potential to make life even more dangerous for them.First, such a law will engender a feeling of safety online, a feeling that is dangerously false. ... I read a quote that of the 200 predators caught on MSNBC's Dateline show “To Catch A Predator”, only 4 were registered sex offenders. In any event, the cautionary example against letting one's guard down is the current high-profile case in Puget Sound [I think this refers to a high-profile Navy officer trapped in such a situation]; whatever the numbers, a great of predators have never yet been caught. (This case is also why I support such “sting” operations.) I will note also that according to the U.S. Department of Justice statistics, half or less of sex offense convictions are repeat convictions.
Second ... many might not know how many e-mail addresses they have; recently I cut mine down radically, but then... my cellphone turned out to have an e-mail address! Will this law be used against people in these situations? Given that they're registered sex offenders I'm sure it will, and at least some registered sex offenders will realize their vulnerability. ... An additional effect here will assuredly be to turn registered sex offenders who are working at going straight into scofflaws; likely another bad thing according to psychologists.
Third, new e-mail addresses are ridiculously easy to get and that a registered sex offender is using a new one, for any reason, virtually impossible to detect. Such a law will do absolutely nothing to deter the real predators. They're planning to commit a crime that, if caught, will in many states put them away for a long, long time if not forever. What would be their concern about a comparatively minor penalty added on if they're caught? I'm guessing nothing.
Fourth, and this is an “if”, the government's track record of keeping “private” information private has been rather poor of late. One leak and the whole system is compromised. Registered sex offenders will be abandon their registered e-mail addresses wholesale, if only to avoid harassment. (And might I add: the instant they acquire another, even with no criminal intent, they are now criminals subject to prosecution even though they register the addresses at the first available instant.)
Fifth and worst, even if none of the preceding become realized issues, the concept of making the database accessible in any way, even if it's a “yes or no” response to a query on an e-mail address, will prove to be extremely hazardous. Consider the spammers who would love to have such a highly-qualified list of prospects to their porn-merchant customers. All they need to do is, once they have any kind of access to the database (even the minimal one I note – and an awful lot of online information has been compromised), is to run their list against it – and who among us is NOT on one spam list or another? Once they have that, expect sales pitches, much more aggressive than they'd dare send to the general public, going out to the registered sex offenders. This is a sure-fire recipe for greatly increased recidivism, and thus an increase of newly victimized children! The law intended to protect them works against them.