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Senate bill would require age verification for Canadians accessing porn sites (www.ctvnews.ca)
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A Senate bill that would require Canadians to verify their age online before accessing porn is moving through the House of Commons without the support of the Liberal government.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I wrote my MP once in 2021 regarding the reversal of the wholesale broadband rates. Specifically, about how the Vice-Chair of Telecommunications sat down with the President of Bell Media for some beers at a sports game to discuss things after the 2019 court rulings upheld the existing rules set by the Commission.

The result, of course, was a change to the rules.

You're not going to get a real answer from your MPP, just a staffer tasked with boilerplating out an email that could conceivably be construed as an answer to your question/complaint.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    The staffer has two jobs. Their first job is to send a useless mollifying email. Their second job is to make a tally mark next to the words "PORN AGE GATE -- OPPOSED". (Or these days, probably they click a button on a spreadsheet.)

    Writing your MP is like voting. It's useless individually, but in aggregate it will change their behaviour.

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