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UK Propose Registering Screen Names with Police

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-england-you-only-get-one-online-name dept.

Oxygen99 writes "In a series of kneejerk suggestions following this online rape plot, the UK Home Secretary, Dr John Reid has suggested that offenders on the Sex Offenders Register should register their online identities with the police. According to a home office spokesman this means that offenders, 'online identities would be treated in exactly the same way as their real name'. So, just how misguided is this and who's going to be the first to tell him?"

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  1. Re:actually... by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    if it were feasible (which it isn't) this might be a good idea. Sure we should in general be free to do what we please online, but that freedom rests on an implied right to safety. "He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security"

    Rapists forfeit their online freedom Nope, under this proposal, everybody would forfeit their online freedom. The spectre of rapists is only dangled in front of the voting populace to conveniently switch off their brains. Fortunately, sometimes sanity prevails in the end.