<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/808ae8dc-d221-4677-8f9e-1c563e2969da/8201C219-7D1B-4EAD-AE20-295C5AEDE1C0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mashable.com/2009/08/13/sex-offenders-banned/" href="http://mashable.com/2009/08/13/sex-offenders-banned/" style="font-size: 11px;">mashable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/08/13/sex-offenders-banned/"><P><IMG height="155" width="114" class="alignright size-full wp-image-139109" title="patquinn" alt="patquinn" src="http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/patquinn.jpg" />Should sex offenders be allowed to use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networking sites? Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (pictured) thinks not, and this week signed into law <A href="http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/09600HB1314enr.htm">a bill</A> that bans all registered sex offenders in his state from using social networks.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/08/13/sex-offenders-banned/"><P><A href="http://open.salon.com/blog/mad_typist/2009/08/12/your_scarlet_letter_now_applies_to_facebook">Salon points out</A> that in 13 states you’ll be added to the sex offenders register for “urinating in public (in two of which, only if a child was present)”, while “29 states required registration for teenagers who had consensual sex with another teenager”. In other words: it’s not just child molesters and rapists who would be banned if such laws became accepted.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/08/13/sex-offenders-banned/"><P>Then there’s the problem of implementation: who is going to keep an eye on the thousands of registered sex offenders to see if they’re using <A href="http://mashable.com/category/facebook/">Facebook</A> and <A href="http://mashable.com/tag/twitter/">Twitter</A>? Surely there are better ways to spend police time than tracking the web habits of someone who had sex in high school?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8201C219-7D1B-4EAD-AE20-295C5AEDE1C0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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