Opinion ID: 794140
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Heading: Sentencing objective relevance

Text: 53 As already discussed, a condition of supervised release must be related to sentencing purposes and must impose no greater restraint on liberty than is reasonably necessary to accomplish sentencing objectives. United States v. Germosen, 139 F.3d 120, 131 (2d Cir.1998). Restrictions on Internet use may serve several sentencing objectives, chiefly therapy and rehabilitation, as well as the welfare of the community (by keeping an offender away from an instrumentality of his offenses). See generally Lifshitz, 369 F.3d at 189-90 (listing deterrence and rehabilitation as two benefits of Internet monitoring). 54 The Internet ban imposed on Johnson serves these sentencing objectives, confronts Johnson with the need to take his treatment seriously, and serves as an external control to predatory Internet behavior, standing in for Johnson's deficient internal controls. Treatment officials suggest that such external checks often become internalized, promoting healthy behavior in the long term. The question is whether a lesser restraint would do. 55