There was this article today about the Leg trying to monitor sex offenders online. While it is a laudable goal, it is stupid. It shows the utter ignorance of our legislators. Why not regulate the thoughts of sex offenders? They should register whenever they think about doing something illegal. If they don't register the thought and we catch them they will go to jail!
This is an exercise in futility... There are so many ways for a sex offender to get around these rules. The simple fact is that the technology does not exist to track a group of people like this online (see China). The other thing that really worries me about this is that Andrew Thomas thinks it is an appropriate balance between civil liberties and protecting the public. My knee jerk reaction is to oppose anything Thomas supports (given his extraordinarily bad judgement about almost everything).
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