Double Journal 12

Summery

            Sex offenders should not be banned from social networks because not all sex offenders actually committed a sexual crime.  Some sex offenders were placed on the list for random things such as: urinating in public, public nudity or streaking, some sex offenders were teenagers who had consensual sex with other teenagers.  This article is a persuasive article to get others to see that not all sex offenders should be punished from social networks because of some sex offenders who actually had sex with underage children.  They also make the argument that it is in our best interest to allow them on social networks to keep track of what they are doing to keep others safe. 

Evidence:

            The fact that some of the sex offenders were placed on the sex offender registry when there was no sexual encounter in the situation is one piece of evidence.  It would be in our interest to allow them to be on social networks to keep track of them.  Also, there were only a very small few cases where the internet was used to form a relationship. 

Validate the Website:

            The domain name makes it a commercial site.  It is a news website.  The author is clearly stated and when the article was written is also clearly stated.  There is short information listing of the author stating what he has done recently and why he is interested in this information.  There are advertisements to make the site proof that it is a commercial site.  The information in the article can be validated using other internet sites.  Also using the links in the article, one downfall of the article is a link goes to more work of the original author however another link gives validation of some of the points made in the article. 

My Position:

            At first I felt that sex offenders have no business on a social networking site.  I looked at it as allowing a sex offending in an elementary classroom; it just doesn’t work well to do so.  However, when I learned that not all sex offenders where in a situation of sexual encounter that some sex offenders are on the list for crimes like urinating in public or public nudity they should be able to be on social networking sites.  First we should allow all sex offenders to be on social networking sites to keep track of where they are and what they are into.  Second we should rethink the sex offender list because if we really have sex offenders who only urinated in public then we have bigger problems with the rights of people then social networking.  I am not saying the public urinaters should go without punishment, but do they really need placed on the sex offenders list?