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The House of Commons is days from passing Bill S-210, a dangerously broad age verification bill that would put an age lock on most of Canada's Internet and threaten every Canadian’s privacy.

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[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I briefly skimmed a few parts of it, nothing really popping out at me. What's potentially bad about it?

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That would put the burden of verifying the identity of users on the website operator before they can participate. Personally, I know I don't want to have the responsibility of handling PII just so that a stranger on the Internet can participate on a public forum where there could be harassment when I think we're doing a good enough job by moderating the platform with a decent set of rules.

And this kind of requirement doesn't really consider the nature of a federated platform such as the fediverse, as I couldn't vouch for the identity of remote instance users if we get audited.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Fair enough. When you put it like that it does in fact sound like a bit of a nightmare....