{"id":1211,"date":"2001-10-19T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-19T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2001\/10\/19\/sex-and-computers\/"},"modified":"2001-10-19T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-19T05:22:00","slug":"sex-and-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2001\/10\/19\/sex-and-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex and computers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech-Savvy Texas Judge Cracks Down on Sex Offenders<\/a><\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas judge has deployed special screening software to stop convicted sex offenders from surfing Internet pornography sites.<\/p>\n

Judge Sam Katz of San Antonio, who handles sex offenses in the Bexar County District Court, said on Thursday that three paroled offenders have been sent back to jail after software he ordered them to install on their computers alerted probation officers that they were trying to view online pornography in defiance of his orders.<\/p>\n

“All three of them decided to violate the terms and conditions of their probation and they accessed a pornographic site,'' Katz said. “I should say, they tried to access it, because as soon as they tried, the service provider stopped them.''<\/p>\n

In addition to denying them access to pornographic sites, the software also sent out e-mail messages to probation officers.<\/p>\n

“Seventy percent of all initial contacts now between sexual deviants and children occur on the Internet,'' Katz said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See, now I have a problem with this. How many times have YOU been minding your own business when a mistyped link, or perhaps a spam email, or a malicious javascript sent YOU to a porn site? I know it's happened to me when I was not looking for porn. Just the other day I was going through a bookmark file that was 3 years old (don't ask). Along with the dead links, I found several formerly innocuous<\/i> sites that now redirect to porn sites. Should I be chastised for seeking out porn by going to those links? Unless this software can determine intent, I don't see how it can be a valid probation tool.<\/p>\n

And don't get me started about sex offenders getting “caught” on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tech-Savvy Texas Judge Cracks Down on Sex Offenders SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas judge has deployed special screening software to stop convicted sex offenders from surfing Internet pornography sites. Judge Sam Katz of San Antonio, who handles sex offenses in the Bexar County District Court, said on Thursday that three paroled offenders have been sent back to jail after software he ordered them to install on their computers alerted probation officers that they were trying to view online pornography in defiance of his orders. “All three of them decided to violate the terms and conditions of their probation and they accessed a pornographic site,'' Katz said. “I should say, they tried to access it, because as soon as they tried, the service provider stopped them.'' In addition to denying them access to pornographic sites, the software also sent out e-mail messages to probation officers. “Seventy percent of all initial contacts now between sexual deviants and children occur on the Internet,'' Katz said. See, now I have a problem with this. How many times have YOU been minding your own business when a mistyped link, or perhaps a spam email, or a malicious javascript sent YOU to a porn site? I know it's happened to me when I was not looking for porn. Just the other day I was going through a bookmark file that was 3 years old (don't ask). Along with the dead links, I found several formerly innocuous sites that now redirect to porn sites. Should I be chastised for seeking out porn by going to those links? Unless this software can determine intent, I don't see how it can be a valid probation tool. And don't get me started about sex offenders getting “caught” on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}