Opinion: Canada’s age-verification bill for porn is a slippery slope to a restrictive internet
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While its intentions are good, the proposed bill is riddled with problems and should not be passed

Canada’s proposed Bill S-209, which addresses online age verification, is currently making its way through the Senate, and its passage would be yet another mistake in tech policy.

The bill is intended to restrict young peoples’ access to online pornography and to hold providers to account for making it available to anyone under 18. It may be well-intentioned, but the manner of its proposed enforcement – mandating age verification or what is being called “age-estimation technologies” – is troubling.

Globally, age-verification tools are a popular business, and many companies are in favour of S-209, particularly because it requires that websites and organizations rely on third parties for these tools. However, they bring up long-standing concerns over privacy, especially when you consider potential leaks or hacks of this information, which in some cases include biometrics that can identify us by our faces or fingerprints. […]

  • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I have a great relationship with my kids that is built on communication and honesty. You don’t know anything about me, try not to be presumptuous about my character. Did I attack your character?

    I asked about religiosity because I was curious about correlation, for the same reason I asked about spanking - whether you support it or practice it - which I noticed you didn’t answer, but frankly I’m still curious given your claims to protecting children at all costs.

    Now I’m curious about another correlation: Which party do you generally support?

      • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
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        2 days ago

        I don’t drink soda drinks - which, unlike my questions, is irrelevant.

        Unless you can assert a link between soda and child safety and well-being, or between soda and social conservative beliefs.

        Edit to add we should leave this discussion, it’s dead at this point. I wish you the best of luck with your kids, sorry to hear you feel like you need to protect them to the point of sacrificing your privacy. I suggested there are other ways to do this that don’t affect your privacy but it seems your attitudes towards pornography are sufficiently negative that you won’t consider them.

        I suggest you worry about your own kids and stop worrying about mine.

        • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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          2 days ago

          But I want to be like you, who is able to worry about your own kids as well as mine!

          But yes you are right, this discussion ended a few comments ago.