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I saw over at Gamepolitics.com that Texas is trying to pass a law extending the sex offender registration act to the online world. Meaning that if you doodle some kiddos dongle your Gamertag ‘Lemme Doodle Your 12yo Dongle’ will be registered on some website that moms go too to make sure they are indeed surrounded by sickos.

The interesting thing is that the law can be read in such a way that would outright ban these sex offenders from XBLA and PSN and the like.

Here’s an except –

As HB 22 is currently written, the measure would seem to encompass online gaming venues such as Xbox Live, PlayStation Home and Second Life. However, no specific reference to online gaming appears in the bill, which has cleared committee but has not yet been taken up on the House floor.

In fact, a stricter interpretation of HB22 might preclude sex offenders from places like XBL and SL entirely. That’s because the bill bars sex offenders from using the Internet to access commercial social networking sites. Such a prohibition which might reasonably be extended to encompass the increasingly prominent social aspects of online gaming venues.

And here is a link to the article.


  • Paul

    Not that I’m in defense of sex offenders (I feel like i have to say that even though I shouldn’t) but where does this end? Next, I know, let’s ban gays. Cause we all know all gays are sex offenders who want to eat your children. /sarcasm

    LET’S THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

  • http://www.bonus-level.com Lance

    I think that’s my main beef with this as well. It’s hard to be against this without sounding like you want all children everywhere to move to Indonesia and be raped by middle aged white business men.