SCOTUS: Facebook Is A-Okay For Sex Offenders

[myhightechsec]

Where do you draw the line? Speech with risk? No speech at all?

SCOTUS: Facebook is A-Okay for sex offenders - Hot Air Hot Air

 

[Liberty Sanders]

I have to agree with SCOTUS on this one.

After I retired I took a part time job at one of the big box home improvement stores. One night I happened to check the sex registry for my area and found one of my co-workers on it? Rapist? Child molester?

Nope. He tried to engage the services of a prostitute. Bad judgement maybe. But sexually predatory behavior? No. He had no business being on the list.

Sexual registries, like so many government schemes, have been perverted from their original purpose and turned into political footballs. I recall a case a few years back where a guy had to go on the registry in his state for having sex with his girlfriend who he subsequently married. He had to stay on it.

A prohibition on the use of social media using these lists as a basis is throwing the net WAY too wide.

 

[Sylvain]

I have to agree with SCOTUS on this one.

After I retired I took a part time job at one of the big box home improvement stores. One night I happened to check the sex registry for my area and found one of my co-workers on it? Rapist? Child molester?

Nope. He tried to engage the services of a prostitute. Bad judgement maybe. But sexually predatory behavior? No. He had no business being on the list.

Sexual registries, like so many government schemes, have been perverted from their original purpose and turned into political footballs. I recall a case a few years back where a guy had to go on the registry in his state for having sex with his girlfriend who he subsequently married. He had to stay on it.

A prohibition on the use of social media using these lists as a basis is throwing the net WAY too wide.

Can't you also make it to that list if you're caught peeing in public?

 

[Dddrees]

I have to agree with SCOTUS on this one.

After I retired I took a part time job at one of the big box home improvement stores. One night I happened to check the sex registry for my area and found one of my co-workers on it? Rapist? Child molester?

Nope. He tried to engage the services of a prostitute. Bad judgement maybe. But sexually predatory behavior? No. He had no business being on the list.

Sexual registries, like so many government schemes, have been perverted from their original purpose and turned into political footballs. I recall a case a few years back where a guy had to go on the registry in his state for having sex with his girlfriend who he subsequently married. He had to stay on it.

A prohibition on the use of social media using these lists as a basis is throwing the net WAY too wide.

Seriously, he paid for a prostitute and he was put on a list?

 

[IndianaSoloMcfly]

Can't you also make it to that list if you're caught peeing in public?

yup. Worked in a kitchen with a guy who got hammered at a bar here in town. Took a leak and a dude and his daughter walked around the corner. Sex offender + indecent exposure. Its been awhile but i think the issue was the girl was like 7 or 8. Had to go to court and everything. Obviously bad call on this guys part but eh.

 

[KLB]

I love it when a USSC decision is unanimous.

 

[HoughMade]

Can't you also make it to that list if you're caught peeing in public?

Maybe some places. Not in Indiana.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

"Sex offender" is way too broad of a term, and needs drastically pared down into serious and not-serious.

 

[OakRiver]

Don't you love it when the article demolishes its own credability in the opening sentence;
"To be fair, the headline isn’t entirely honest in terms of the sentiments being expressed, but as far as the letter of the law goes it’s pretty darned close."

Do I think that a blanket ban is appropriate in this instance? No. Do I think that individuals should have some targeted, measured limitations on who they may contact on social media following a conviction in a court of law? Yes.

 

[HoughMade]

...Do I think that a blanket ban is appropriate in this instance? No. Do I think that individuals should have some targeted, measured limitations on who they may contact on social media following a conviction in a court of law? Yes.

I don't disagree with that. I am also thoroughly in favor of parents parenting.

 

[bwframe]

I have long believed that the federal gov't should be offering bounties for the reporting of illegal activities posted on social media that result in conviction.

 

[Bill of Rights]

...Sexual registries, like so many government schemes, have been perverted from their original purpose...

I see what you did there.

 

[OakRiver]

I don't disagree with that. I am also thoroughly in favor of parents parenting.

Yup. If parents do not take an active interest in their kids they may never know if someone else has until it is too late.

 

[russc2542]

Can't you also make it to that list if you're caught peeing in public?

Maybe some places. Not in Indiana.

Our neighbor to the west... go figure. regardless of the presence of children or folks of a different gender.