Sunday, March 4, 2007

Law weighed to stop online predators

Law weighed to stop online predators




In past few years, social networking websites have been boomed all over the internet, such as myspace, facebook, xuqa, and etc. And these website has been the online predators' main targets as well. Since lots of young students join these social networking website group, online predators have been lurking around the sites and trying to lure young people. From these online predators, we had to do something to protect our younger brothers, sisters, and kids.

Finally, New Jersey lawmakers are considering a measure to prohibit released sex offenders from using the Internet and to impose new rules for online dating sites. This is definitely a big step towards stopping online predators. I am also against the online dating sites. How can people trust some random person chating online? and meet and date them after?

Released sex offenders caught using the Internet would face up to 18 months in jail and fines of up to $10,000. Sex offenders caught using the Internet to solicit a child would face a mandatory five years in jail. We should absolutely keep the law harsh on the sex offenders online. How can we let our younger brothers, sisters, and kids go online safely with these sex offenders lurking around? We have to set some strict rules and laws to prevent these from happening.

One thing I really like about this new law is that the new measure requires online dating sites to tell New Jersey residents whether they do background checks. All online chatting and social networking sites should have these feature when people first register. The site should check their background information, and register according to that. Internet companies like Yahoo!, AOL, eHarmony and Match.com also are concerned about the online dating rule.

We should move to these direction as soon as possible. We should be able to let our kids go online safely without worrying about anything. When sex offenders are caught, there should be a harsh punishment as well. From these measures, we only can get rid of all the sex offenders on the internet.

Mike



Sources:

Survey: Law weighed to stop online predators
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2007
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