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Britain Seeks Ban For Pedophiles On Facebook

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Britain is seeking to enact a law that would prevent pedophiles from using online social networks like FaceBook. Of course enforcement could be an issue. The plan calls for pedophiles to give their email addresses to the police, who will contact the social networks and have the person banned by email address.

The plan involves forcing sex offenders to give any e-mail address they use to police, who will then ask the Web sites to block their access, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said.

Smith said the proposal is aimed at sending out the message that the Internet is “not a no-go area when it comes to law enforcement.”

“We are changing the law … so that we have got better control over the way in which child sex offenders are able to use the Internet,” Smith said on GMTV.

The government wants to prevent pedophiles from using social networking Web sites to groom children to be sexual abuse victims, according to the Home Office.

The proposal faces a great number of hurdles, especially in its’ current format . Everyone knows just how easy it is to fake an email address, so many revisions must be made before the plan becomes reality.