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In his blog post, Ben called out Twitter users who made light of Glitter’s past. While Twitter has a zero tolerance policy toward the promotion of child pornography, it does not prevent sex offenders from joining the site, though it have an age requirement of being at least 13. There is no legal barrier to prevent a convicted pedophile like Glitter to run a Twitter account. If sex offenders are so limited in the “real world”, why are there no laws prohibiting what they can and can’t do on in the “digital” world. I hope this has highlighted the flaws with human rights protecting the rights of registered sex offenders whilst also putting our children at risk by allowing (what could have been) a real sex offender on twitter. As quoted in Digital Journal, Ben continued: He wanted to demonstrate how easily pedophiles could reach potential victims using digital means. The impostor, who identified himself only as “Ben,” said he was “deeply disgusted” with Glitter’s actions. The scary thing is that most parents wouldn’t bat an eye-lid at their child following a profile that seems to promote their favourite singer. How many young girls would follow me? I hazard a guess at a few thousand. Imagine for a second, I set up a profile saying I was a “Justin Bieber Fan Club”. That’s hundreds of thousands of photos I can view. That’s 20,000 people I can send private and direct messages to. Since we can’t access the original post, here’s part of his lengthy explanation, as quoted by one was a fake account. He set up the (now defunct) Tumblr account,, to explain his reasoning. The account holder behind revealed his account to be “a social experiment to highlight Internet safety and morality” last weekend. That’s not glam rocker and convicted pedophile Gary Glitter you’re following.