Quite why something like this hasn't been implemented sooner is beyond me, but it seems that Texas' legal system has finally caught up with the modern age and is considering a new bill that requires kiddy fiddlers to register their online game handles. It could even stop them playing games online completely.
HB 22 is currently being written, and will likely include all known avenues of online gameplay, including Xbox Live, PlayStation Home and Second Life. It's quite shocking to think that convicted pervoids are currently allowed anonymous access to these services, but hopefully this will become a properly enforced law.
It's also being suggested that HB 22 could go as far as to completely ban known sexual predators from online games altogether, which would of course be the best thing. The bill currently proposes that dirty bastards be banned from using the Internet to access social networking sites. The intepretation of such a rule could extend to online games, meaning that if you decide to shag a kid, you can kiss your Xbox Live subscription goodbye.
I know if I were a pedo, the threat of not being able to play Killzone 2 anymore would be a crucial deterrent. This could save lives!
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5:00 PM on 05.06.2009
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Anyway, what about friend codes?!
Because people flock to support bills like this, the conditions for which one could be branded a registered offender are growing, and no small amount of people get wrongly convicted or over-convicted.
Also, did anybody ask if perverts are actually committing offences facilitated by Xbox Live or similar services? Or is it just Law and Order paranoia running wild?
There's an interesting article at The Daily Beast about some new research into the subject, which finds the entire fear of online sexual abuse to be vastly overblown and paranoid. The vast majority of sexual abuse occurs in the home and/or with someone the child knows, so I view this sort of legislation as looking in the wrong place.
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And... wait. OH! Texas SEX Offenders. I though they were wanting registration for people who feel insulted by living in Texas.
Conrad: Don't feel like you're coming down on the side of the cho-mos, though. You're coming down on the side of due process, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. These are things we too-easily throw out the window when we're afraid of any perceived SCARY-THREAT-TO-AMERICAN-CULTURE.
I personally was arrested after my 18th birthday for having sex with my girlfriend who I had been with for over two years! ..Luckily, her mom didn't press charges, but if she had, I'd be a registered sex offender now.
Do I go around playing grab-ass with little children? Hell no, that's some sick shit. I'll beat the ass of anybody I see trying to touch a kid.
If I got banned from online gaming over 10 years later for something like that, I sure as hell wouldn't think it was fair.
On the other hand, people who are caught using the internet or online gaming communities as tools to prey on children, I think they should be arrested, sentenced, AND banned from using/owning said devices as a condition of their parole... That would seem a little more fair, to me.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17216_p2.html
So that tag has gone a long way from pedophiles.
It is scary easy for people who are -not- child rapists or serious perverts to get on lists of registered sex offenders.
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I wish society would make up its mind; either execute the pedophiles (or lock them up for life), or once they've served their debt to society, let them be. What we've got now is a strange mish-mash of letting them out but not letting them live freely, even though they have been "punished and reformed".
I feel sorry for them; I don't see how they are supposed to reform and function in society with the current laws.
You even use the terms "kiddy fiddler" and "pedo". Are you trying to be a troll Jim, or are you really this dumb?
You even use the terms "kiddy fiddler" and "pedo". Are you trying to be a troll Jim, or are you really this dumb?
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