The Big Story Canadian politicians vs... PornHub?
Most people would support the concept of preventing children from accessing online pornography. But the devil is in the details. How exactly do you do that? And what level of privacy will you ask adults to give up to make it happen.
A bill currently sitting in committee has this very goal, but no details yet to go with it. It may involve asking sites like industry leader PornHub to take access users' identification. It may even require facial recognition software. Nobody knows. PornHub, meanwhile, is saying it won't break the law, but it also might just decide to block all Canadians from the site, just to be safe.
When politicians staret legislation pornography, it can get messy pretty quickly. And here we are...
GUEST: Stephanie Taylor, Parliament Hill reporter, The Canadian Press
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