CBS NEWS – Mar 2 - Sex offenders in California will have one more
roadblock in their efforts to lure young victims if lawmakers in
Sacramento have anything to do with it. Norma Torres introduced the
bill in January, which would make it a crime for California's 63,000
registered sex offenders to use any social networks. Match.com
spokesperson Amy Canaday said that at this time Match.com does not do
any background searches on its members because there is "no 100%
accurate way to do them." MySpace has an aggressive policy in place to
keep sex offenders of its site. MySpace runs a 24/7 system that looks
for sex offenders using a five-point checklist: first name, last name,
date of birth, gender and zip code. MySpace compares these identifying
criteria with a national list of registered sex offenders, which they
access from the identification verification company Sentinel Tech
Holding. FULL ARTICLE @ CBS NEWS
This post also appears on SocialNetworkingWatch.
The subtle but serious problem with bills like this is the misnomer of what’s actually a “sex offender”.
Reasonable people like you and me will assume naturally that a sex offender is a person who committed some type of physical or emotional assault on another, a “victim”.
But today we’re seeing real abuses of these laws, with INCREDIBLY teenagers being prosecuted as sex offenders for “sexting” among each other — in a very obvious misuse of the laws intended to protect real victims from real assailants.
Just a different perspective that a lot of people don’t realize is happening… we’re actually getting ready to do an Ask Dan & Jennifer segment on the gross misuse of the sex offender and child porn laws in recent years.
Thanks!
Dan
The subtle but serious problem with bills like this is the misnomer of what’s actually a “sex offender”.
Reasonable people like you and me will assume naturally that a sex offender is a person who committed some type of physical or emotional assault on another, a “victim”.
But today we’re seeing real abuses of these laws, with INCREDIBLY teenagers being prosecuted as sex offenders for “sexting” among each other — in a very obvious misuse of the laws intended to protect real victims from real assailants.
Just a different perspective that a lot of people don’t realize is happening… we’re actually getting ready to do an Ask Dan & Jennifer segment on the gross misuse of the sex offender and child porn laws in recent years.
Thanks!
Dan
I think it all started with the The Ultimate Man’s Sex CheckList! It encourages men to do something with it.
I think it all started with the The Ultimate Man’s Sex CheckList! It encourages men to do something with it.