NY: Cuomo: Make Sex Offenders Disclose Dating, Gaming User Names
New York’s governor says convicted sex offenders should be required to disclose their social media screen names to prevent them from using apps to exploit children.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that existing laws targeting online predation don’t account for new technology. His proposal, unveiled as part of his State of the State agenda, would require sex offenders to hand over screen names for dating and gaming apps, as well.
The Democrat’s proposed legislation would also make it a crime for convicted sex offenders to misrepresent themselves online.
Cuomo says sex offenders currently only have to provide the state with information for their social media accounts. The state compiles that information into a list and sends it to certain social networking companies which have used it to purge accounts.
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Unfortunately I feel civil unrest coming on
well in a way stupid crap like this will help in the long run (we may be dead by then though and most likely will be) as they keep pilling crap on one day a challenge to Smith will make it’s way back to SCOTUS or several cases. and it will fall and most likely in 100 years or more the outrage over these laws and our descendants will receive $$$ from the gov. from our suffering lake has been done before in history
If the bill becomes law in New York people will be surprised how many new profiles there will be on the site for people “living” n New Jersey.. If the government contacts the site knowing that this act will restrict free speech, it should have Constitutional challenges. Since Facebook contains official government speech a lawyer should challenge bans based on Packinham ruling.
Since sex offenders are not a protected class, that is the case the local, state and Federal Governments use to discriminate against us. We are not a protected class, therefor these places, sites, businesses etc get away with banning us.
We talked about this before how Nextdoor can spread crap about us beyond just information, saying how horrible we are and ever making the charges sound worse than they are, without us being able to fight back since we are banned from them. One guy at registration said he had a public urination charge when he was drunk and on nextdoor his neighbor said they are calling him a pedophile. According to the site, regardless of what you did to get on the registry, you are either a pedophile or one step from being one.
Registered citizens ARE a protected group in theory: Packingham decision guarantees the right to the free speech on social media. If the government agency is reporting internet identifiers to private companies with the intention to deprive citizens of the right guaranteed to them, than that agency should be brought to court. Also registered citizens in CA will soon have one more right that no one else in California will have: the right to discuss their former interest in CP since they uniquely cannot be charged under double jeopardy.
Can we prove that govt intent in these disclosures is to have social media ban registrants outright?
My guess is that officials are indifferent as to whether or not social media bans registrants, so long as those officials appear to be “doing something” about sexual predation. To Gov. Cuomo, apparently, disclosures accomplish that “something.”
Registrants are, of course, supposed to receive constitutional protections, but that does not mean they will ever be a protected class, nor should they be— just make registries nonpublic again, and otherwise reform them, and we will never again have to seriously debate whether there’s a need to make sex offenders a (politically infeasible) protected class.
I closed my browser and then came back to it and my comments (mentioned below) are gone. Can someone tell why they would be taken down. No character limit was given.
I just tried calling the New York number given under contact. When I asked how many characters are allowed, I was sent to a voice mail. I have also emailed the only email address I could find for them.
Since many of you, if not most, are denied the right to respond to news media articles that report on how your constitutional rights are being slowly eroded, I tried to do it for you, using some of the comments made by registrants at this site. I wanted to use everyone’s comments so that all could be heard, but space does not allow it. Thank you for all of your ideas.
SarahF
Thank You very much! Very much appreciated
I never could get my comments to stick at nbcnewyork.com. I did find a similar article at democratandchronicle.com (part of the USA Today network in Albany, NY) and was able to post comments successfully there.
Typical politician for you, follow the others, if it worked for them, it can work for you to. The old proverb that power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely still plays true no matter what.
Driving RSO away from social activity that everyone else enjoys will only isolate them further and make it MORE likely that they will reoffend.
Hey Cuomo. Don’t try social engineering. You don’t have the brains to do it, but you don’t have the balls NOT to.