Canada’s S-210 is part of a wave of proposals worldwide seeking to gate access to sexual content online. Many of the proposals have similar flaws. Canada’s S-210 is up there with the worst. Both Australia and France have paused the rollout of age verification systems, because both countries found that these systems could not sufficiently protect individuals’ data or address the issues of online harms alone. Canada should take note of these concerns.

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We have to protect the children! Said every moral panic ever.

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frothing mouth puritanism intensifies

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Sorry, frothing at the mouth implies that you are a sexual degenerate. We have to ban you now.

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