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EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law
Bobfrankly1 writes "The EFF sued to block portions of the approved Prop 35 today. Prop 35 requires sex offenders (including indecent exposure and non-internet offenses) to provide all of their online aliases to law enforcement. This would include e-mail addresses, screen and user names, and other identifiers used on the internet. The heart of the matter as the EFF sees it, would be not only the chilling effect it would have on free speech, but also the propensity of these kind of laws to be applied to other (non-sex offending) people as well."
In my state, "sex offenders" include people who have urinated in public, people who forgot to close the bathroom shades before getting out of the shower, and a great many teenagers who couldn't keep it in their pants. Are these the "depraved and psychotic people" whose lives you wish to destroy?
I've heard this argument presented many times here before,
But it never stands up when I look at the registries in my home state and county,
Search Public Registry of Sex Offenders
Level 1 offenders and offenders whose risk hasn't been assessed are excluded here. What you will find here are rap sheets. Convictions. The age and sex of the victims. The M,O,, such as the use of a weapon. The victims can be very young. Two years. Five years.
The geek clings to his fantasies of the sex offender. Paging through these registries breaks the spell.