Ha, ha, not likely..... but Canada's Conservative party leader stepped in a big puddle when he endorsed a private members bill ( which means it will never be passed) that in the opinion of some experts would require Canadians to prove they're adults every time they sign into a porn site, "Canadians could see most internet services require us to provide a government-issued ID to log on, have our faces repeatedly scanned and stored in leaky databases to simply live our online lives.”

Media commentators immediately dubbed it the jerking registry, because it's assumed most men use internet porn when they're masturbating...... and as Dan on Roseanne told his son, everybody does it, but nobody talks about it. That reference is a bit dated.

Conservative leader Pierre Polievre, expected to become PM within the next year and a half, supports the bill, but won't say how it would be enforced. The issue came up in the context of an actual government bill called the Online Harms Act which is meant to prevent online abuse including material meant to encourage self-harm, promote genocide, sexual bullying of children and other crimes. Personally, my impression is almost anything complex done with the best of intentions doesn't work or makes things worse.

 

 

 

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Funny, you don't look Canadian . . .. .  . . . . . . . . .