Comments on: 7 MySpace sex offenders arrested http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12512 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12512/comment-page-1#comment-139442 Reader's Write Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:10:21 +0000 #comment-139442 AMEN! AMEN!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12512/comment-page-1#comment-139441 Reader's Write Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:34:20 +0000 #comment-139441 The sex offenders arrested were (A) violating the terms of their probation or parole by using MySpace, or (B) arrested for failure to comply with existing registration laws. It's not a crime for a sex offender to use MySpace. Many of them that do have legitimate reasons for doing so, not unlike the reason you and I would use it. It's important for these kinds of over-hyped stories that play on the public's fears to garner support for law enforcement and politicians to be put into perspective. Sex offenders arrested for violating terms of probation: a big fat non-story. The sex offenders arrested were (A) violating the terms of their probation or parole by using MySpace, or (B) arrested for failure to comply with existing registration laws.

It’s not a crime for a sex offender to use MySpace. Many of them that do have legitimate reasons for doing so, not unlike the reason you and I would use it. It’s important for these kinds of over-hyped stories that play on the public’s fears to garner support for law enforcement and politicians to be put into perspective. Sex offenders arrested for violating terms of probation: a big fat non-story.

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