Instagram now bans registered sex offenders.
On April 19, 2018, Facebook owned Instagram, revised it’s Terms of Use.
The new version replaces the prior version, which had been in place since 2013, can be found here: http://help.instagram.com/581066165581870?helpref=page_content
Sadly, included in this months change is a ban on anyone registered as a sex offender. The restriction did not appear in the prior version.
A comprehensive online news search revealed no issues with sex offenders using the platform in the past.
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This is not the fault of Facebook, Instagram, Nextdoor, or any of the other companies or businesses that ban us.
It is the fault of our government for putting us on a list and declared to be dangerous without any Substantive Due Process behind that declaration. Our own states forward are private email addresses to any social media site that requests it in order to ban us.
Interesting the in Packingham SCOTUS declared we have a right to use social media as the modern town square as a First Amendment right, yet the registry and the government providing our data to social media to ban us goes completely against that ruling.
If we do have any good lawyers on our side, where are the Substantive Due Process challenges that were even mentioned by SCOTUS as potentially being successful in Connecticut DPS V Doe 2003?
So when will they start booting us?
No surprise
My thing is this. My face and information is already plastered on the internet thanks to FDLE. So why in the hell would I use social media to put my stuff out there even more? I had facebook when I got out of prison but got rid of it when I saw the waste of time it really was. Oddly enough, the detectives don’t care if you have one as long as its registered. Even though they know facebook bans us. Interesting.
yes that is interesting as RSOs are using Facebook even though Facebook bans them
The internet is not a public utility, therefore every service provider is a private entity. We are always in someone’s house and must obey their rules stupid as they are. Face book is for the good people, everyone but registrants, and they don’t ban ISIS members, WTF. There is no public square on the Internet. We serve at the pleasure of the corporations.
Aren’t the telephone, cable TV, broadband, etc lines that the use are “public utilities?
does this really surprise anyone ?? 1st its us, then it will be another class of people( probably conservative minded people ). i dont know what happened to the county I grew up in.
You refuse service to a LBGT couple, you get sued and loose ( wedding cake story ) you refuse service to a guy in a MAGA hat , and you win?? (http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/04/25/judge-rules-new-york-city-bar-can-refuse-service-to-trump-supporter-wearing-maga-hat.html). i am not trying to make this political, but if a judge sides with a bar over that they can chose not to serve a patron over a political belief, how long before others follow suit and will refuse service to any RSO, not just bars/restaurants,( I mean god forbid an RSO actually buy a meal when there could be children at the place ) hell it could be grocery stores, gas stations,hospitals … you name it.. based on this Judge’s ruling, as long as you dont discriminate against the politically correct people, the others dont matter ..our current system is so out of control it scares me