Posts Tagged ‘sex offenders’
New York State Bans Online Gamers Who Are Sex Offenders
Via Kotaku, a story about New York State banning online gamers who are sex offenders. This kind of makes sense, since (I think—I’m not a lawyer) convicted sex offenders are required to stay a certain distance from kids, and obviously kids (in this case I mean humans under the age of 18) are frequently playing games online.
One could argue that this raises privacy issues. But with apps that allow paranoid parents to easily find nearby sex offenders via GPS, sex offenders don’t have an expectation of privacy.
For me, this is yet another argument to keep my kids off of XBox Live or Life With Playstation or OpenFeint or whatever. As I’ve said to them many times—I trust you. It’s other people I’m concerned about.
New York State Just Banned 3,580 Online Gamers Who Are All Sex Offenders (Kotaku)
