Facebook ordered to remove paedophile monitoring page

[Jazzy]

A Facebook page set up to monitor paedophiles must be taken down following a case brought by a convicted sex offender who features on it.



The page, called “Keeping our kids safe from predators,” included a photograph of the man and comments he said were threatening.



A judge gave the social network 72 hours to remove it after ruling that some of the content constituted harassment of the man and risked infringing his human rights.



The page featured material on paedophiles in Northern Ireland and the offender, who cannot be identified, claimed it was an attempt to vilify and whip up hatred against him.



He was given a six year jail term for multiple child sex offences committed more than 20 years ago. The man had been found guilty of indecent assault, gross indecency with a child and inciting a child to commit an act of gross indecency.



But he alleged the content on the Facebook page amounted to harassment, misuse of private information and a breach of his right to privacy and freedom from inhuman or degrading treatment.

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Do you agree with the judge? Why or why not.

 

[Bluezone777]

Oh what's that? A child predator wants to be free of inhumane and degrading treatment? Perhaps if he respected that child's freedom from inhumane and degrading treatment then he wouldn't be having these problems?



Not to say I would condone such behavior against anyone but he brought it upon himself via his own actions so he has no one to blame but himself for this.

 

[Jazzy]

I don't condone what he did but it was 20 years ago. Perhaps he's now got a family and has changed his ways. I also don't think it was right to post his picture without his consent. People can change and he did serve his time.