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Meanwhile the LPC oppose the bill while the CPC would work to amend it.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The legislation doesn't specify how websites should verify a user's age, but options include establishing a digital ID system or services that can estimate an individual's age based on a visual scan of their face.

Yeah, that's a greeeeat idea. People will obviously be totally on board with their computer taking their picture while they're gearing up to do that.

Regardless, all laws like this do are sell VPN subscriptions or push people to the real shady sites. As a consistent NDP voter (not that my vote matters in my Conservative riding) I sincerely hope they're making a show of reviewing this bill before dismissing it. We saw what happens when the NDP tries to move right of the Liberals under Mulcair - it's a bad move.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I swear historically they (the NDP) would have been vehemently against this as I recall them being very pro privacy in the past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yup, but politicians are always trying to play the game. They probably have some internal metric causing them to believe that making a show of looking into this might win them a few voters while retaining their base. Maybe they're right, but I still don't like it. Either way they'll have my vote as they're the only non-Conservative party with even a remote possibility of winning my riding. (Plus I've sworn off the Liberals for a good while after their broken promise on electoral reform.)