S-210: Child Internet Age Verification

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Canada’s Leaders Must Reject Overbroad Age Verification Bill

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Canada 's S-210 seeks to prevent young people from encountering sexually explicit material by requiring all commercial internet services that “make available” explicit content to adopt age verification services.

Authors say this is needed to prevent the “development of pornography addiction” and “the reinforcement of gender stereotypes and the development of attitudes favorable to harassment and violenceparticularly against women’s.

Canada should take note of these concerns, but it's not too late to drop the bill, they say.

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