tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7603499.post112025143538252439..comments2023-11-30T03:44:34.585-05:00Comments on Opinions Nobody Asked For: Another Reason Why Sex Offender Registries Are A Bad IdeaJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683622475941901572noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7603499.post-1142464777675887342006-03-15T18:19:00.000-05:002006-03-15T18:19:00.000-05:00The link to the news article is broken; the Sun Ti...The link to the news article is broken; the Sun Times only keeps their articles for a limited period of time. After that, there is an archive that requires paying.Pingvenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10008312529441077008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7603499.post-1120581113340851122005-07-05T12:31:00.000-04:002005-07-05T12:31:00.000-04:00While I'm also torn on the issue of registries as ...While I'm also torn on the issue of registries as a whole, this isn't really an argument against them; it's an argument against overly-broad definitions of a "sex offense".<BR/><BR/>Specifically, I can't understand the logic that restraint of a minor is a sex crime "'because of the proclivity of offenders who restrain children to also commit sex acts or other crimes against them.'"<BR/><BR/>It seems to follow the same fallacious "outlaw the correlary" logic that legislators love to apply to media. "Oh, peer-to-peer networks can be used to efficiently pirate songs? Well clearly it should also be a crime to operate a peer-to-peer network... and you say that circumventing the encryption of e-books could lead to people illegally redistributing those works? Then obviously it should be illegal to attempt to circumvent that encryption in the first place, even for research purposes, <I>even if the company <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Felten" REL="nofollow">asked them to do it</A></I>." (yes, in all fairness the SDMI competition nonsense never manifested itself as a real lawsuit against Felten, but the fact that the issue came up at all was a result of the shitwitted logic of the DMCA).<BR/><BR/>It's bad enough that the average person doesn't know the difference between correlation and causation... sadly, it appears our laws are being constructed and interpreted with the same error.<BR/><BR/>- pierceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7603499.post-1120321743129048512005-07-02T12:29:00.000-04:002005-07-02T12:29:00.000-04:00I have admittedly been torn about this issue. I ca...I have admittedly been torn about this issue. I can see arguments on both sides, mostly against the idea of registries but a few in favor.<BR/><BR/>Regardless, this particular case is ridiculous.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06383789548221247888noreply@blogger.com