Government Shelves Measures To Restrict Paedophiles On Facebook, Says Report
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Government plans to put a check on paedophiles using the social networking platforms, such as Facebook and MySpace, have been held over amid the fears that such a proposition would infringe human rights laws.Back in April, the Home Office announced that it was adopting measures to curtail the registered sex offenders from accessing the social networking sites used by millions of kids every day, and the new proposed law would have restricted as many as 30,000 registered...
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