Ottawa is planning to introduce an online safety bill later this year and it is expected the bill will impose a duty of care on platforms to protect children from harm
Porn sites would have a legal duty to verify their users are 18 or older, under plans being studied by the federal government.
Lianna McDonald, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, said there’s a “generation of boys and girls who’s understanding of sexual relationships is being shaped by unfettered access to violent and misogynistic violent adult content.” Ottawa is planning to introduce an online safety bill later this year. It is expected to impose a duty of care on platforms to protect children from harm, as well as forcing them to remove abusive comments, including racist slurs on social media, more swiftly.
The system would likely require those accessing sexually explicit sites to produce an official ID, possibly through an age verification company.
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