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Civil Liberties

No Love for Sexual Ratings Facebook Page

Josh Turner, who created a Facebook page rating the sexual performance of people in his Australian town, was given a suspended sentence for publishing "objectionable material."

Reason Staff | 7.31.2012 8:48 PM

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The creator of a Facebook page set up to rate the sexual performance of the residents of Bendigo that featured sexually degrading comments about people as young as 13 has been sentenced to a suspended jail term.

Josh Turner, 25, from the Bendigo suburb of Kangaroo Flat, was also banned from the social networking site for two years after he pleaded guilty in the Bendigo Magistrates Court yesterday to charges of using a carriage service to offend and using an online information service to publish objectionable material.

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