So, what is the purpose of throwing people in jail? I thought it was twofold...first, it's a punishment (and the entire purpose of a punishment is to deter the convict and others from doing the same thing again) and second, it is supposed to provide "rehabilitation". And when you're released from prison (or parole, probation, whatever), you're supposed to be done, right? Paid you're debt to society and all that? So if we have to monitor "sex offenders" (why not the other offenders??) after they're released, that's essentially saying that incarceration was useless to begin with, right?

Now we're not only talking about passively tracking what these *citizens* do online, but keeping the keys to their accounts, so law enforcement can plant evidence without any hindrance. No cops are pedophiles, right? None of them would be tempted to use a known sex offender's account to lure little kids to yank their crank, right?

I'm particularly fond of this quote: Staton said although the measure may violate the privacy of sex offenders, the need to protect children "outweighs a lot of the rights of these individuals."

But...I...wha...WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!? I hate to be the broken record, but, 1) NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING outweighs the rights of an individual and, 2) protecting children is the PARENTS' RESPONSIBILITY. If your kid is spending enough unsupervised time online to fall victim to one of these pervs, and has enough unsupervised time to meet them and be physically violated, YOU should be in jail (well, no, because then the state would have to care for the fucked up kid; you should be caned until you lose consciousness).

And this one is a cute followup: "My hunch is, where there's a will, there's a way," Staton said. "If people are intent on violating this law, there are many different ways. What's important is we have given law enforcement a tool."

So, if I'm a pedo, I'm going to bounce my traffic through something like Tor, using accounts that I don't register, and therefore the law is useless, but law enforcement now has a "tool"...a tool to use for what valid purpose??

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oQxRz9elp9s/article.pl

Thanks,
Chaz