Japanese Court Demands 'Right To Be Forgotten' For Sex Offender (thestack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A Tokyo court has ordered that Google remove any results linked to the arrest of a sex offender, after a judge ruled that he deserves to rebuild his life 'unhindered' by online records of his criminal history. Citing the right to be forgotten, the Saitma district court demanded the removal of all personal information online related to the conviction. Judge Hisaki Kobayashi argued that, dependent on the nature of the crime, an individual should be able to go through a fair rehabilitation process, which would include a clean sheet on their online records after a certain amount of time has passed. In this case, the unnamed man had requested that information from more than three years ago, related to his child prostitution and pornography crimes, be removed from Google's results.

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This isn't about the right to be forgotten

[ihtoit]

It's about the offender not having come to terms with his crimes and having gotten caught. This is about the public not being informed that a convicted kiddie fiddler just moved in next door. Well, fuck his rights, what about the rights of the children he abused? What about the children living in the neighbourhood that this so called judge just endangered? Fuck you, paedo, and fuck you, judge, as a parent I say my right to know and to make an informed objection trumps your right to anonymity. Or are you trying to tell me that he's reformed until the next time he offends? Because if he harms MY child, you better have a fucking remote island ready for him because I would hunt him down.

Do you people really not know? Disgraceful

[DNS-and-BIND]

Seriously? An entire internet forum full of educated adults, and not one of them knows why we have sex offender registries? You should all be ashamed of yourselves. You are ignorant people who should know better.

Here's how it goes. Uncle Jorge is a wonderful man who is great with children. He's charming, the kids love him, and at some point he is able to engineer a situation where he is alone with children. Then, his cock comes out and he rapes the kids. Since rape is one of the most disgusting acts we humans can think of, right along with murder and treachery, we put Jorge in prison. After 8 years, in segregated population so the murderers and traitors don't kill him because he disgusts them so much, he is released, his debt to society paid. Right? Right. What happens next?

Jorge moves to another state thousands of miles away, where nobody knows him. He then repeats his earlier crimes. Heck, he takes photos and uploads them to the Dark Web, because why not? Since Jorge had the forethought to move to a liberal state, this time he only gets 18 months in prison.

What happens next? The same thing. Move to where nobody knows him, make everyone trust him, RAPE RAPE RAPE, etc. You know the drill by now. And what is it that everyone says? "If only we had known that Jorge was a convicted child molester, we would have never allowed him access to our children!" This is where the sex offender registry was born. Not out of some sick desire to excessively punish felons, although that line of thought is irresistible to certain kinds of people and indeed we see this all over the comment thread here. No, it's to keep their own goddamn children safe.

Look, you can't change pedophiles. They are men whose sexual desire is towards children. You take one of them, put him in a room with a fertile, sexy 21 year old in a short skirt, and the lady runs her fingers through his hair and says, "Mmm, you look nice, handsome" and what happens? Nothing. He can't pop a stiffy. Why? He's not attracted to that kind of woman. He's attracted to children. That's all there is to it. It's exactly the same as if you put a homosexual man in a room with a the same woman, there will be no attraction and no erection, and hence no sex. That's not what he wants.

Sex offender registries exist so that the rest of us can protect our children against predators. THAT'S IT. There is no other reason. It's not some sick desire to hurt people, it's the fact that We The People have passed laws that we consider to be in our own interest. If you know who the pedophiles are, you can keep your kids away from them and stop them from reoffending. That's it. That's why these laws exist. It is distressing and depressing to see so many people making self-righteous arguments without any knowledge. It's embarrassing for educated people to be so ignorant.