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Bill s-210: Watch porn? This bill will put you on a list. (action.openmedia.org)

submitted 6 months ago by cadekat@pawb.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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The House of Commons is days from passing Bill S-210, a dangerously broad age verification bill that would put an age lock on most of Canada's Internet and threaten every Canadian’s privacy.

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[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

I briefly skimmed a few parts of it, nothing really popping out at me. What's potentially bad about it?

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That would put the burden of verifying the identity of users on the website operator before they can participate. Personally, I know I don't want to have the responsibility of handling PII just so that a stranger on the Internet can participate on a public forum where there could be harassment when I think we're doing a good enough job by moderating the platform with a decent set of rules.

And this kind of requirement doesn't really consider the nature of a federated platform such as the fediverse, as I couldn't vouch for the identity of remote instance users if we get audited.