[garinda]

Without introducing draconian measures, there will always be sick individuals who target vunerable children via the internet.

As Cyfr said, these limited measures will just force the perverts to be smarter, and there will be ways around the proposed changes.

The only good thing to come out of this is all the extra publicity, and that ultimately it is up to the parents to know who their children are talking to on the internet, and wise up on educating themselves, and to tell their kids not to give out personal details, on things like their social networking sites.