We don’t let children access porn offline. Why do we allow it online?

Bill S-210 is straightforward legislation that would require any website that offers porn to verify users' age, to set up a court-supervised enforcement mechanism, and to reserve the process of approving specific age-verification methods for regulations.

The Senate adopted Independent Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne’s Bill S-210 in April 2023 with no opposition, but most Liberal MPs opposed it at second reading in the House of Commons. Unsplash photograph by Franco Alva

Opinion

BY ISG SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, JOCELYN MONSMA SELBY, MARIANNE WILKINSON

February 14, 2024

Pedro Sanchez, the prime minister of Spain, recently called it an epidemic. Last summer, Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s minister for digital transition and telecommunications, called it a public health scandal. In May 2023, Dame Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner ...

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