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We don’t let children access porn offline. Why do we allow it online?

Bill S-210 is straightforward legislation that would require any website that offers porn to verify users' age, to set up a court-supervised enforcement mechanism, and to reserve the process of approving specific age-verification methods for regulations.

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BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, JOCELYN MONSMA SELBY, MARIANNE WILKINSON
February 14, 2024

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, JOCELYN MONSMA SELBY, MARIANNE WILKINSON | February 14, 2024

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We don’t let children access porn offline. Why do we allow it online?

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We don’t let children access porn offline. Why do we allow it online?

Bill S-210 is straightforward legislation that would require any website that offers porn to verify users' age, to set up a court-supervised enforcement mechanism, and to reserve the process of approving specific age-verification methods for regulations.

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