(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - Local lawmakers are hoping a proposed new bill will protect kids against sexual predators on websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Under the new bill, level three sex offenders would have to register their email addresses, Facebook names, Twitter handles and other online aliases with the Sex Offender Registry Board. Failure to register would result in both fines and jail time. According to the Boston Herald, the bill has 12 co-sponsors and could be up for debate as soon as lawmakers return from their August break.
Well this just seems ass backwards, like basically encouraging sex offenders to join Facebook and Twitter? What if you arrest a high profile diddler and he doesn't have a twitter handle? Are you making him sign up for one? What's the check in policy? Do the offenders have to friend and follow the Mass State Police? Poke their parole officer once a day?
And that's before you even get into defining what creepy or questionable activities online would even constitute. The internet is a fucked up place...what would get you arrested and publicly shamed in real life is just an every day activity online for a lot of people. Like if some registered sex offender creeps on some local college girls facebook, is that a violation of parole, or is that just like every other lonely loser that stalks chicks on facebook?
