Facebook faces more legal trouble

how do they know........

Does a check box exist on the account registration page?

[] Click if registered sex offender

No I dont think so, so how can facebook tell with accuracy, which of its users are registered sex offenders?

Maybe they should add one, then if if its not clicked, the account was opened fraudulently and they are protected.(IANAL)

Since you can sign up for membership of just about anything online with a fake address, how?

Judges, clowns in posh clothes...........

What would you do if....

.. you know of someone who uses facebook that has just been arrested for "sex offences" for the 2nd time ?

I honestly don't understand

As Fraser pointed out, being a "sex offender" says nothing about the nature of the person of the "crime". An 18-year-old who had consensual sex with a 16-year-old can be arrested and forever branded as a "sex offender". Someone who gets drunk and gropes the wrong woman can be arrested and forever branded as a "sex offender". Worse, as we've seen pointed out here, a 16- or 17-year-old who posts nude pictures of herself on the internet can be arrested and forever branded as a "sex offender" (I ask you, who did she harm?). The trouble with the term "sex offender" is that it covers such a broad spectrum, it's meaningless. It's like calling criminals "criminals", and treating them all the same, whether they were arrested for stealing a loaf of bread or for murder.

Aside from that, I honestly don't understand what this country's problem is with "sex offenders". These people have been arrested and have served their time in prison. They have (according to the law) repaid their debt to society. They are *SUPPOSED* to be free. So why does the government then try to keep them isolated from everyone else? You can't go here, you can't go there, you can't go on social networking sites... If you want to isolate the people, why not take it to its logical conclusion and just put them in solitary confinement? That's what you want to do anyway. The way I look at it is this: *IF* someone is not fit to be released back into society, then don't release them back into society. Then again, in my opinion, the TRUE sex offenders (rapists, people dealing in child porn, etc) should be permanently removed from society. Why should someone who posted nude pictures of herself be prevented from accessing social networking sites for the rest of her life?

As for the "What would you do if..." comment, I would do nothing. I'm so sick of the "let's ban X person from this place because children might go there". Being on a social networking site, no matter who you are, should not be a crime. Soliciting sex from minors using that site should be (and is). Can you not see the difference? I'm so sick of this preventative society we're turning into where everyone is considered guilty, period. Sure, Christians tell us we're born with original sin. But no one told me I was born with original guilt.

reasoning

Ok, i totally belive that in this country people are found guilty of the most unconcivable things, but however i belive also that sites like facebook have a duty to protect the people it co-habits on the WWW.

I never understood the attraction of Facebook

etc...

but now I know.

Its for those people who have a fetish for 12-year-old-impersonating law enforcement officers.

heh heh heh..

they're hawt.

heh.

why is this facebooks fault!!!

all this trouble about pedophiles grooming children on these type of sites really annoying, parents should be supervising their children, not websites!!!!!!

as a parent it is your job to check what your children are doing and half the trouble with the world today is that everything is everyone elses fault, people need to take some resposibility for themselves and their children!!!!! a phedophile can only groom your child when you are not paying attention.