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October 8, 2019
"Offline: Challenging Internet and Social Media Bans for Individuals on Supervision for Sex Offenses"
The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Jacob Hutt now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:
Tens of thousands of people across the United States are subject to bans on their Internet and social media access due to sex offense convictions. This Article explains why, even for those on parole and probation, such bans are frequently over-broad, imposed on the wrong people, and are now ripe for challenge in light of the Supreme Court’s 8-0 decision in Packingham v. North Carolina.
The first flaw with these bans is their mismatch between crime and condition. They are imposed on individuals whose criminal records have no relation to online predatory activity or manipulation of minors. The second flaw is their extreme over-breadth. Rather than merely proscribing speech with minors or access to certain online forums, they cordon off the Internet itself, ostracizing offenders to an offline society. While these flaws rendered Internet and social media bans constitutionally problematic before the Packingham decision, the Supreme Court’s imprimatur on free speech for individuals convicted of sex offenses could — and should — lead the way to future legal challenges of these bans.
October 8, 2019 at 12:06 PM | Permalink
Comments
These criminal regimes can't be sued often enough. And obviously these criminal regimes are not just trying to silence people who are on supervision. They are trying to silence ALL Registered Persons (RPs), the majority of which completed their full, legal sentences years and literally decades ago. They are trying to silence all dissent, criticism, and social engagement. For example, they are working very hard to try to keep ALL RPs off of Facecrook.
The criminal regimes lie that their attempts to kill dissent is for public safety and protecting children. But like most everything they do regarding $EX, it is nothing but hollow, shallow lies.
The criminal regime of North Carolina (CRNC) is one of the worst offenders. They are whining and crying because they lost Packingham. So what these criminal regimes try to do is to force RPs to give them their "internet identifiers". Then they give them to Facecrook and other big government boot lickers so that they can silence RPs. And really, only a true, true idiot could possibly even fantasize that such a scheme does any good. Do these criminal regimes really not understand that anyone who wants to do anything illegal is not going to worry in the slightest about not giving the criminal regime 1 e-mail address? Really? The criminal regimes are stupid and dysfunctional, but does anyone actually think they are that stupid? Maybe.
The other thing that the CRNC has tried to do is to make it a felony (yes, wtf?!!!!) for any RP to not follow the "Terms of Service" of boot lickers like Facecrook. It is not a felony for ANYONE to violate their "Terms of Service", it only is for RPs. Because it's no problem if anyone else does it. I have no idea where this latest attempted crime stands. These criminal regimes commit so many crimes, I can't keep up with them.
The REAL point of "internet identifiers" and all of this other useless nonsense is to silence dissent. To try to control Amerikan citizens. That's it. And it is to create "crimes" that are actually not crimes at all or harming anyone. They are "crimes" just fabricated out of thin air to harass people. They LOVE arresting people for these "crimes". Keeps their jobs and $$$ for them. China, N. Korea, and other similar countries must be so proud of Amerika.
As an aside ...
F every single person who thinks $EX Offender Registries ($ORs) are acceptable. They are Registry Nazis/Terrorists (RN/Ts). I expect that MOST people who are listed on the $ORs likely did something wrong/illegal at some point in their lives, possibly something very heinous. However, they paid the full legal consequences for it.
We know that $ORs are not needed or effective. We know that RN/Ts have crossed the line with their harassment and have supported numerous truly awful things that are obviously anti-factual and anti-reality (AND have also resulted is such trivial things as getting innocent children murdered). We know that.
So RN/Ts are criminals TODAY. They are harassing terrorists TODAY. And they will be tomorrow and the day after. And unlike Registered People who certainly had a limited number of victims, the victims of RN/Ts are in the millions. They are an ongoing danger to Americans. THAT is why RN/Ts deserve a bullet between the eyes. Every single one of them.
Posted by: FRegistryTerrorists | Oct 9, 2019 2:07:00 PM
