The last Parliament featured debate over several contentious Internet-related bills, notably streaming and news laws (Bills C-11 and C-18), online harms (Bill C-63) and Internet age verification and website blocking (Bill S-210). Bill S-210 fell below the radar screen for many months as it started in the Senate and received only cursory review in the House. The bill faced only a final vote in the House but it died with the election call. This week, the bill’s sponsor, Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne, wasted no time in bringing it back. Now Bill S-209, the bill starts from scratch in the Senate with the same basic framework but with some notable changes that address at least some of the concerns raised by the prior bill (a fulsome review of those concerns can be heard in a Law Bytes podcast I conducted with Senator Miville-Dechêne).
All this really does is kill commercial websites and brings back independent sites. I’m not for this bill at all, but people can just stop using those services—and the world would be a better place.
All this really does is kill commercial websites and brings back independent sites. I’m not for this bill at all, but people can just stop using those services—and the world would be a better place.
People still use Amazon.
Amazon Porn != Amazon Prime