UK paedophiles told to hand over email addresses

Registered child sex offenders will have to provide their email addresses to police in a move to stop them using social networking Web sites, the Home Office announced on Friday.

Police will pass the addresses on to the sites which will then be expected to monitor usage or stop offenders logging ...

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Just having to provide their email addresses is ridiculous, they should be banned from using the internet completely.

Agreed. This is a very weak move on the part of the authorities.