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.
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.
And there’s also Bill C-63 that may fuck us up too…
I briefly skimmed a few parts of it, nothing really popping out at me. What’s potentially bad about it?
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.
Fair enough. When you put it like that it does in fact sound like a bit of a nightmare…