Canada bans all sex offenders from the internet

[eznutz]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/canada-enacts-internet-ban-sex-offenders-015012734.html?ref=gs

Canada's Supreme Court acted to protect children in the fast-growing world of cyberspace, enabling judges to prohibit those convicted of sexual offenses against minors from using the internet.

"The record demonstrates that the internet is increasingly being used to sexually offend against young people and that sex offenders who target children are more likely to re-offend," Justice Andromache Karakatsanis wrote for the majority in a hundred-page ruling

 

[rhuarc29]

I'm sure that will do wonders to make them productive members of society.

I'd say focus on rehabilitation and lock repeat offenders up for a long, long time.

 

[whollycheeses]

And how exactly can this be enforced?

 

[escortsxxx]

In the same way speeding tickets are - you get caught your in trouble - the fine /consequences will be high enough to deter most from major abuses. For example if you where banned you could not buy a service provider - but just like guns being banned you can still break the law.
However since all activities in modern life are tied to the net this is a stupid law - giving them a computer that was constantly monitored would make more sense.

 

[Glock19]

They should be banned at schools, daycares, and public washrooms

 

[Aardvark154]

Canada bans all sex offenders from the internet

That is a way to overbroad a statement.

It would be more accurate, but much wordier, to say that the Supreme Court has extended the ban on internet access by those convicted of sexual offenses against minors to those convicted before 2012.

 

[IM469]

Wouldn't make more sense to either ban content (you don't ban walking outside but you can ban accessing areas such as schools , playgrounds, etc) or only allow access to the internet through some special monitored site ?

 

[dirkd101]

There is a method that prevents them from a relapse and it comes in the form of a rope...

 

[legmann]

I'm sure that will do wonders to make them productive members of society.

I've got news for you: generally agreed upon that sex offenders are (well)nbeyond rehabilitation; they don't magically turn into 'productive' members of society.

 

[Aardvark154]

I've got news for you: generally agreed upon that sex offenders are (well) beyond rehabilitation; they don't magically turn into 'productive' members of society.

However, a major problem with most sexual offender lists is that they are 'one size fits all.'

There is a world of difference between a man who has repeatedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted children under the age of ten and a 21 year old with a two months shy of her 16th birthday girlfriend whose parents get upset and report him. Yet after conviction, both typically are on the same sexual offender list.

Read about what Joseph Gray and William Elliot had done so that both of them were on the Maine sex offender registry Easter Sunday 2006 when they were murdered by Stephen Marshall from Nova Scotia.

 

[fuji]

I've got news for you: generally agreed upon that sex offenders are (well)nbeyond rehabilitation; they don't magically turn into 'productive' members of society.

I think that's true of pedophiles and rapists.

Do you think anyone convicted of seeking the services of a prostitute should be registered as a sex offender and banned from the internet? Can such a person be rehabilitated into a productive member of society?

 

[Scarey]

It would be a certain irony ,if a study was done over a 30 year period from this date, that found that those banned were more productive, had higher IQ's, less aggression, more focus, more life experience , better social interaction and better physical health. Would almost make the punishment worth it.

 

[escortsxxx]

It would be a certain irony ,if a study was done over a 30 year period from this date, that found that those banned were more productive, had higher IQ's, less aggression, more focus, more life experience , better social interaction and better physical health. Would almost make the punishment worth it.

LOL yes the net has lowered IQ consistently fighting with the Flynn effect.