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This cannot work safely in the current legal and regulatory environment.

In principle, there seem to be ways to securely, anonymously, and privately handle age verification. To the best of my knowledge, no such system has been deployed or mandated.

Thus, we are left with only the requirement to hand over critical documents to those who have no "standards of care" that make it safe to do so.

Have none of these people ever heard of any company or government agency losing control of personal information? How about they put some effort into fixing that first.

The letter I'm sending to my MP:

I urge you to fight against this proposal on moral grounds. That might sound like an odd point of view, but hear me out.

One of the greatest challenges facing us with online activities is not what we or our children have access to, but how companies are handling critical permanent identification. Every day there is a new report of some entity that has lost control of information that has a major negative impact on those whose information was exposed.

There are ways to effectively manage such information and there are companies and government departments deploying those systems. However, there is currently no legal or regulatory framework making those systems and methods mandatory. Until that legal and regulatory environment exists, it is not just a bad idea to expand data collection requirements, but immoral.

To be clear, I'm not talking about the possibility that some person is exposed as a consumer of pornography. I'm talking about those whose incompetence and/or low standards of care allow criminals to gain access to the identifying data for use in criminal activity.

I don't know about you, but the porn industry is the last industry I would ever trust to properly secure and manage identifying information.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Yeah no thanks.

The fucking NDP supported this bill with the conservatives. There goes any future support I have for them.

And then VPN usage explodes just like it did in Utah.

Contact your local MP and say no to bill S-210

https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/search

Canadian Lawyer goes over S210

“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.”

Someone or another once said that way back when, as I recall.

I wonder how many senators think all porn is hosted on pornhub. It's comical how it's the most legally compliant and ethical porn site out there by a mile, yet it still gets targeted by every pearl-clutching legislator

I assumed this was a Liberal-backed initiative, and was (for once!) happy that my Poillievre-loving zombie CPC MP would automatically vote against it.

The CPC supports this? Whatever happened to small government and freedom?

But of course. "Think of the children," which will lead to more shitty, unworkable, unconstitutional, pointless legislation.

FFS.

Measures like this have failed time and time again.

This time it'll work, though, right?

Conservatives wanting to police our bedrooms and our sinful thoughts? Not a stretch for those hypocrites.

A spokesperson for the Canadian heritage minister told The Canadian Press earlier this year that the government was working on its own approach to dealing with online harms, and the Senate bill overlapped with their work.

Sounds like they don't disagree on principle but just want it done their way.