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What Do Court-Ordered Internet Bans Really Mean?
tcd004 writes "Chris Lamprecht, a.k.a. Minor Threat, was the first person to be banned from the internet back in 1995. Since then, the practice has gained popularity worldwide. In the last year, courts in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States have all banned people from the Internet. A British court recently banned a convicted pedophile specifically from entering chatrooms for 10 years. But how effective are the bans? Minor Threat contends that the rules governing his internet ban use were toothless. How much harder is it to keep people off the internet in an age when everything--from parking meters to refrigerators--comes with an IP address." (Note: the Globe and Mail story requires registration.)
...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.
only old people use the Internet...
Edmonton man jailed for luring teen on-line
By KATHERINE HARDING
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
Edmonton -- An Edmonton man whose on-line nickname was "Edmonton-pervert" was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison yesterday for having unprotected sex several times with an autistic teen he had lured using an Internet chat room.
"I find it repulsive, repugnant, sickening and disgusting, the idea of a 38-year-old man and a 13-year-old girl who was obviously sucked in by the Internet," Judge Paul Adilman told a packed courtroom before sentencing Brian Deck for sexual interference and luring a child using the Internet.
Upon his release, Mr. Deck, a divorced, university-educated father of a 17-year-old girl, will be prohibited for 10 years from communicating on-line with children under the age of 14. He pleaded guilty to the charges earlier this week.
Judge Adilman said the case "sent shivers" up his spine, and warned that Internet chat rooms are "extremely dangerous," adding he hoped the sentence would deter others from committing similar crimes.
Before the sentence was announced, Crown prosecutor Steve Bilodeau urged the judge to send a strong message.
"This sentence should send a chill through the Internet lines to all the people at their keyboards late at night talking to little girls and little boys on the Internet," Mr. Bilodeau later told reporters.
The young victim, who under a publication ban cannot be identified, was in court yesterday with her mother. In written victim-impact statements, both said the incident had changed their lives.
"I was scared when I had to go to the hospital to get a bunch of tests done," the victim wrote, adding that she was afraid she might have contracted sexually transmitted diseases from unprotected sex with Mr. Deck. All of the tests turned out negative, she said.
The 13-year-old has a form of autism called pervasive developmental disorder; her social judgment and reasoning skills are impaired.
Her mother, who has been in counselling since the incident, wrote that she is "terrified" to let her daughter out of her sight and has become overprotective.
The teen first met Mr. Deck, who was employed as a tradesman at the time, in a MSN chat room last January. After exchanging several "lurid" e-mails, Mr. Bilodeau said, the two agreed to meet on Jan. 16. Mr. Deck was aware that she was 13, but the girl was under the impression that he was 29.
During that meeting, the pair had unprotected sex in Mr. Deck's car. They agreed to meet the next day, and Mr. Deck wrote his name and number on a piece of paper with instructions for the teen to bring her provincial health card so they could buy birth-control pills.
The next day, Mr. Deck picked the girl up and drove her to his house, where they drank vodka coolers, watched DVDs and had sex twice. He later took her to an Italian restaurant at a local mall.
When the girl called home and lied to her mother about where she was, her mother grew suspicious and called police. Mr. Deck was arrested the next day.
During his sentencing hearing, Mr. Deck apologized to his family and the teen.
"It's been really hard. . . . If I could just turn back time," he told the court.
Nah... You just wish you were, fucktard!