These boomers have lost their fucking marbles.

If it's legal for women to be topless in public, why would pictures of topless females be in this law?

Our government really is dumb. Plus, it's only going to expose the kids to sketchier and possibly illegal stuff. If big porn players step up and do verifications, there would surely be dozens of sketchy sites popping up left and right to fill the void of providing porn.

Ok I don't understand this push to block porn at a country wide level.

Who wants this and why?

I honestly don't see why. Most to the time they tell you follow the money but I can't think how blocking porn helps anyone but VPN providers, and old school porno mag and video publishers.

Maybe this is a fundamentalist puritanical thing? But how is it getting such wide support? Are there that many but hurt virgins in the Senate and House of Commons?

Argh so many questions and this feels so absurd.

First, this is so obviously going to be used against the LGTBQ community. Second it’s dangerous as fuck.

Third, if they actually cared about this they need to actually think about this rights restricting law. You could use browser attestation or APIs and not violate anyone’s rights, but our MPs don’t know shit about technology.

I’m not in favour of this option either, but it’s better giving the government a list of everyone who wants to access Grindr or buy a trans rights book, or read a forum about guns, or whatever other hot button issues the government decides is controversial.

Creating such a list is the most dangerous thing a government could possibly do.

Looking forward to learning what porn my MPs are watching.

Better headline: "Tech-illiterate wanks suggest having to verify your identity prior to letting you wank"

Anyone supporting this should be volunteering for test trials.

At this point, "let kids watch porn" is almost worth the hassle as a contrarian rebuke. The US has conservatives flipping out over the barest hint of sexual information reaching... teenagers. Everywhere has conservatives mumbling their way toward spying on adults to stop the apparently unprecedented possibility of children seeing boobs.

A contra-positive "what are you fucking worried about?!" is so much easier to rally than some wishy-washy "yes, but--" nitpicking. Like it's on us to address these people's insane goals. The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer. They're just picking something vaguely gross to minimize dissent - and to easily slander anyone who speaks up.

So fuck it. I'm not terribly bothered if kids see gross shit on the internet. It doesn't need to be illegal, for sites to keep undesirable content hidden by default or excluded entirely. The US has no laws against being an outright Nazi, but on any site not run by and for Nazis, that shit is not welcome. If logged-out Twitter users are one click from seeing what furry smut peddlers post, apparently that's not the end of the world. Pretty far from the worst thing Twitter's ever done.

I'm short on reasons not to tell people - big whoop, and mind your damn kids.

Everyone wanting to look at porn needs to send a letter to their MP first, requesting permission.

We're lucky the biggest porn monopoly in the world is based in Canada (much as I loathe monopolies and think the government should break them up)

I'm fairly sure MindGeek will lobby for this not to pass. Corrupt cronyism will get us a win for once.

A broken clock is right twice a day

VPN and torrents will get you anything you want.

It's like they are trying their hardest to have no chance of winning the next election.

Anyone who wants to monitor how everyone else jerks off should automatically be required to have their Internet activity monitored, because they sound like perverts.

Bro if you want some links, just ask.

Think of the children. That poor Thirteen yo boy who doesn't have the luxury of Sears catalogs on the coffee table. Or hustler magazines on display in every corner store. He just wants the see a pair of boobies /s

Do they want a barage of global requests for porn? Because this is how you get a barage of global requests for porn.

Not that that will stop them from doing something completely retarded. It hasn't before and the pieces of human garbage in power will continue to push any regurgitated trash thrown their way by corporate entities so long as it comes with a fat bribe.

Keep in mind these are the same people selling weapons from Canada to every single dictator and authoritarian in the world, with our weapons somehow still landing in enemy hands more than a decade after the initial inquiry into how US soldiers were being killed by Canadian weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan (See russia/afghanistan list of weapons by both sides)