George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
The "hand in hand with children" wording seems to conflate physical space with cyberspace. Please see my relevant reply to George William Herbert.
There's a known and ancedotally (but not known to be statistically) significant trend of pedophiles attracting victims online.
Also, apparently, of them coordinating amongst themselves to pass tips about possible victims in specific areas.
Still, pedophiliac "preying" (whether on- or offline, not to speak of the coordination thereof) seems marginal at best compared to traditional run-of-the-mill child abuse which involves non-pedophiliac adults often related to the victim looking for substitute sex "partners". Should those other potential perpetrators be banned as well? "Do we care for their victims as much?"
And if we assume that it is the parents' duty to supervise their children's access to Wikipedia as content not suitable for them may be displayed, how could there be any danger to them?
It would have been so much nicer if there had been a dif- ferent reason to ban this user.
Tim