🚨LAST CHANCE! Soon the House of Commons will do a last vote on #BillS210, a dangerous proposal that locks up the Internet and sacrifices our privacy. Email your MP to say NO to extreme S-210 - via @OpenMediaOrg openmedia.org/NoInternetLock
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.
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.
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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…