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Because the internet does not end at the Canadian border, and porn companies operating from other countries have no reason to implement such systems. And you ca
by genocidicbunny 3y ago
Because the internet does not end at the Canadian border, and porn companies operating from other countries have no reason to implement such systems. And you can't block access to them -- VPNs are trivial to access these days.
> We get age checked here in Canada all the time when we buy booze for instance. Why not enforce it here with something like an age verification?
Because to buy alcohol you have to physically show up at a store with a physical ID that needs to pass as real, and you need to present yourself passably as an adult. Even then, it's not terribly difficult to get around even that -- plenty of high-schoolers are able to reliably get alcohol with cheap fake ID's because they look old enough and the ID is good enough. Online delivery services are also not terribly hard to spoof for a dedicated enough teenager.
- cherioo 3y agoThen the next step is to ban VPN. It also doesn’t matter that the ban is not 100% effective, as long as it deters majority of the uses. Arguing whether or not it CAN be blocked feels pointless. The question needs to start from whether it SHOULD be blocked or not.
- mulmen 3y agoYou said the quiet part out loud. The next step is banning VPNs. For the children of course.
- rangestransform 3y agoThe closet authoritarians have really come out of the woodwork during the pandemic and haven’t been kicked back into submission