What are your thoughts on this?

[desmeran]

i think the ruling was legally correct.

as for reasonableness, i do think it is reasonable to ban sex offenders from certain social media sites ... but only insofar as it specifically relates to communication with minors. so i think as a condition of a sex offender's sentence they can be banned from sites aimed at children or from communicating with *children* on facebook (just as they can be banned from, say, volunteering in a school). but i do not think it's reasonable or even helpful to ban them from the internet as a whole or from all of facebook (widely used among adults, by businesses, by employers, etc.). that is like saying they are never allowed in the grocery store because there might be a child there.