Stopping online piracy is not censorship

A new proposal to block Canadians from accessing websites that engage in piracy, while imposing safeguards to protect users’ digital rights, is balanced and pragmatic.

University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist has warned that a proposed system to block websites that engage in piracy 'raises serious due-process concerns,' and threatens to 'gradually expand into demands for blocking of a wide range of other content.' The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY ALAN MCQUINN, DANIEL CASTRO

February 14, 2018

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is considering a proposal to block Canadians from accessing we...

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