Sex Offenders To Register Email Addresses

American Voices

January 31, 2008 | ISSUE 44•05

Proposed legislation in New York would protect underage Internet users by creating an email registry of convicted sex offenders. What do you think?

Don't they already have ways to distinguish sex offenders online? Isn't that what the winking emoticon is for?

Spencer Rimmer
Pollster
Underage kids shouldn't be on the Internet. They should be outside, enjoying fresh air, and getting into stranger's vans.

Ben Birtwistle
Show Salesperson
But can't sex offenders just get new e-mail addresses? Nah, I'm probably just overthinking this.

Lucy Pritchard
Jewelry Cleaner

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