The last Parliament featured debate over several contentious Internet-related bills, notably streaming and news laws (Bills C-11 and C-18), online harms (Bill C-63) and Internet age verification and website blocking (Bill S-210). Bill S-210 fell below the radar screen for many months as it started in the Senate and received only cursory review in the House. The bill faced only a final vote in the House but it died with the election call. This week, the bill’s sponsor, Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne, wasted no time in bringing it back. Now Bill S-209, the bill starts from scratch in the Senate with the same basic framework but with some notable changes that address at least some of the concerns raised by the prior bill (a fulsome review of those concerns can be heard in a Law Bytes podcast I conducted with Senator Miville-Dechêne).
Point 1 tells me who wanted this the most. Facebook is a fucking cesspit that I stopped looking at ages ago and seemed like people moving away from it. They are now becoming a hub again since people are forced into it.
And Zuckerberg is a reptile who guards his own privacy to impossible extremes while wanting to know every single tiny detail about us.
Point 1 tells me who wanted this the most. Facebook is a fucking cesspit that I stopped looking at ages ago and seemed like people moving away from it. They are now becoming a hub again since people are forced into it.
And Zuckerberg is a reptile who guards his own privacy to impossible extremes while wanting to know every single tiny detail about us.
I’ll throw my phone in the goddamn lake first.
Be sure to smash it and apply a blowtorch to it first to render the SSD card and all electronics useless.