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Re:Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now by intunderflow on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @07:56AM (#40716723)
Similar reason why there's no death penalty. If you get the wrong person and you lock them up you can release them with compensation, it won't fix it but its better. You can't un-castrate someone the same way you can't revive them after an execution.

Courts convict innocent people all the time, hence no irreversible punishments.

Re:Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now by tichiian on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @07:58AM (#40716741)
Locking someone up is a one-way punishment, they will not get their years back. Branding someone as a child-molester, even if they are later vindicated, is permanent. We already have irreversible punishments.
Re:Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now by infecto on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @09:18AM (#40717505)
Ok but after two strikes? If you have gotten into trouble twice, I don’t have much concern. Life is not fair sometimes. Happy to see if there are better ways to treat abusers that improve recidivism but I am not convinced prison time works. There is something deeply wrong with people who not only have the desires but are willing to act on them knowing it will hurt their victims.
Re:Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now by raxxorraxor on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @10:04AM (#40718015)
The threat level doesn't make your proposal a necessity and I believe it is founded in the same irrational fears that this policy suggestion plays on.