Comments on: FDLE cracks down on unregistered dating accounts

By: P

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:47:48 +0000

In reply to Saddles. Here’s a vote to defund Sorna Mr President. Here’s a vote for full repeal of the registry. Such a shameful waste of taxpayer money. Just terrible. It needs to be fixed Mr President. Thank you Mr President. Here’s a vote for you.

By: Saddles

Saddles — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 02:53:01 +0000

Whether registered or unregistered in these dating accounts many people just want someone to talk to. At least that is what the “pretender” in my situation wanted. Next thing you know the pretender is wanting me to sent other pictures and I’m sure it wasn’t a picture of other family members or my cat or dog. As it is an adult website.

Many on FAC are right about trying to catch a predator but one has to realize who’s the predator. 9 times out of 10 its that law enforcement person role playing to snag and manipulate one in these victimless crimes, And I’m sure they would do it again regardless one’s status.

And yes they induce the crime. So using a website to talk to a minor when it wasn’t a minor and the person was on an adult dating site.

I have to agree with Vito, Will Allen, and many more that much of this registry is a scam with a capital S. I would guess those without sin cast the first stone. Guess law enforcement’s across the USA have a whole bunch of sins. Amazing that law enforcement can induce sin.

By: screwd over

screwd over — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:49:21 +0000

I recall a few years back that best buy was working with some law enforcement group and doing forensics on computers and the gov. would give best buy or the employee incentives to continue to report. it was determined that best buy was acting a an arm of the law and therefore should have obtained search warrant. i wounder if some similar defense could be used here to fight this BS OVER REACH!

By: Will Allen

Will Allen — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:49:12 +0000

In reply to RM.

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How else? I think the Registries in general just harm peace. They don’t bring peace to anyone. Certainly not to the families listed on them. Or the families living near them. Or anyone else, as far as I can tell. And personally, I support that. As long as Registries exist, I don’t think there should be peace. I’m not going to live in peace with any people who think Registries should exist. I’m not going to care about those people, their families, or any rights or peace that they think they should have. To me, they are enemies and I’ll treat them as such.

It’s clear to me that Registries have been harming Amerika for a long time and it’s not going to stop. Amerika is a third world country in so many ways. Definitely not anywhere near a moral leader in the world.

By: Will Allen

Will Allen — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:48:49 +0000

In reply to RM.

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The amount of resources wasted is insane. If people are interested in government waste and corruption, they don’t have to look any further than their Sex Registries toy.

I wonder what the total cost of the Sex Registries is. It is not just the cost of wasted money and time. It is missed opportunities also. All those resources that are wasted on the Registries could instead be used to try to prevent or solve some crimes. Think of all the crimes that have been committed while law enforcement was jacking off with their Registries. Think of the crimes that they have not solved because of it. All for the lies that they are supposedly preventing some mythical, non-existent crime from occuring. Instead, they get real crime.

But the costs go far and wide beyond just time and money. What are some other costs? The Registries certainly have driven the hate in Amerika way up. Does hate in Amerika harm all of us? I look around and have to believe that is does a lot. The Registries are nothing but bullying. We know what effect that has. That gets people hurt.

How else does it harm/cost? It certainly costs in goodwill. For example, for me personally, I know that I will never support law enforcement doing anything. I don’t trust them, the scum that run them, or the politicians. So I’m going to be a constant problem for them. In any way that I can. And I’m completely committed to never helping them. All that “see something, say something” nonsense is wasted on me and my large extended family. We won’t be saying anything.

By: RM

RM — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:18:17 +0000

Imagine the time, money, and other resources that went into this massive operation. It took them a year, they worked directly with the owner of the dating apps/websites, and with around 80,000 people on the Florida registry managed to find a grand total of 44 people (0.055% of the total) with unregistered internet identifiers (under the law, it’s technically not the account that must be registered, but the screenname the person uses plus the name of the app or website, and it’s not a crime to use such apps or websites–the information just has to be reported within 48 hours of being used to directly communicate with another person).

So in an entire year, with what must have cost tens of thousands of dollars (if not hundreds of thousands), multiple law enforcement agencies eked out fewer than 50 arrests. Imagine how many victims of real crimes could have been assisted with those resources, or how many actual crimes could have been prevented.

By: RET. SGT. Vito

RET. SGT. Vito — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:53:27 +0000

Running out of people to arrest and add to the registry for actual sex-related crimes?
That’s okay let’s just re-arrest people already on the registry (in this case, adults trying to meet other consenting adults) to reflect a faint justification for the budget cost, man hours and privacy violations imposed on citizens. Don’t forget to spin it in such a way that the media will report these as new arrests and new offenders.
Honestly how many times can you re-arrest the same populous of people and call it progress?
If PFRs are such a threat, why don’t they just offer us the death penalty? I’d happily take a guillotine over this life of perpetual harassment, prejudiced public stigmatization, joblessness, homelessness and general wanton manipulation by lawmakers and anyone with a badge.
I never thought I would have to work so hard to not land in prison over something like an email, attending church, change of phone number, dating site, having a facebook account, expired driver’s license (when I don’t even own a vehicle) etc.
All that awaits me (like many others on the registry) is the day my parents pass away and I end up homeless which on the registry translates to inevitably going to jail.
I swear the entire registry must be some insane money laundering scheme, because honestly it seems to serve no point and have no real goals aside from funds spent on clandestine task forces with operatives concocting and executing stings and hosting illegal material to “catch” offenders. Dreaming up laws to make every nuance of life somehow a violation of the registry; voting, travel, working, dating. This invisible net that ensnares us in perpetual “crimes” with the same perpetual arrests on relatively the same perpetual populous.

Thank you for the headline FAC, sorry for the rant.