@SW-User
Ultimately, the person who commits the crime is the one who needs to be harshly dealt with. And I do mean HARSHLY!
But MY point is that parents/guardians need to take some personal responsbility for letting their children go places online or in the physical world where those children could come upon harm.
And while a parent who gives their 8-year old daughter a cell phone or lets her go unsupervised on the internet may not face the same CRIMINAL responsibility that she would if she left a loaded gun in the house unlocked and the child used it to harm herself or others, I believe it is the PARENT who has the MORAL responsbility to see to it that the daughter doesn't access websites she shouldn't be or sexting on her cell phone, not all adult-related websites ande websites where adult content is discussed.
Therefore, I do NOT agree with, say Nikki Haley, who wants trash our First Amendment and regulate the internet like China does. I get the feeling from your original post that you favor the approach by Haley and the communist Chinese government. Haley wants to PROHIBIT anonymous free speech.
Perhaps you would also want all adults who enter an adult bookstore or subscribe to an adult magazine having to turn over their identifying documents to the government. Perhaps make a list of such persons public (just as Haley proposes that Americans have their full names published along with every social media comment they make). I don't know how you feel about that.
Perhaps you want to ban books that talk about sex, lest someone act on sick fantasies they get from reading them?
So then should we also ban all books, movies and writings that deal with war, lest some future politician, military leader or wannabe dictator act upon the fantasies they get from a Napleonic-power complex?
I mentioned in another post about a certain Austrian paper-hanger who was influcenced towards anti-Semetism and Anschluss with Germany from the 19th century Austrian politician Georg Ritter von Schönerer.
Should adults therefore be prohibited from reading von Schönerer's works lest they be influenced in the way Adolf Hitler was? Should the study of World War II be prohibited in schools less some kid be influenced by Nazism and fascism?
How many religious books should be banned because they talk about sex and conquest?
When you go down the road of censorship, it's a very slippery one.
I say instead deal with the people committing the crime itself. Especially when it comes to preventing REPEAT-offenders.
I've posted many times on SW about sickos who violated restraining orders again and again, eventually murdering their victims because some f'm judge refused to lock them up.
Law enforcement can read posts made online and investigate threats. How many more times must a mass-shooter get away with killing people because no one intervened after reading their online manifestos?
Let's do the things we CAN do without turrning the United States into Ceaușescu's Romania.
