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Canadian MP Calls For ISP Licenses, Content Blocks

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the fun-time-over dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A member of Canada's ruling Conservative party has pledged to "clean up" the Internet with new bill that would mandate ISP licensing, know-your-subscriber rules, and allow the government to order ISPs to block content. ISPs that fail to block would faces possible jail time for the company's directors and officers."

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  1. Re:what's happening by belmolis · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's always disturbing to see things like this, but this is nothing to worry about. The bill is a "private member's bill". That means that her party isn't interested. Even worthwhile private member's bills that would receive a lot of support if sponsored by the party have little chance of passage. Furthermore, she isn't a prominent member of the party. It's very unlikely that this bill will go anywhere.

  2. Direct link to the Act by dleigh · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publicati on.aspx?Language=E&Parl=39&Ses=1&Mode=1&Pub=Bill&D oc=C-427_1&File=24#1

    Some lowlights:

    "Internet service provider" means a person who provides a service that facilitates access to the Internet, whether or not the service is provided free or for a charge.

    4. (1) No person may offer the services of or operate as an Internet service provider unless the person has been granted a licence to operate as an Internet service provider in accordance with subsection (2).
    So if I let my flatmates share my internet connection, that makes me an ISP without a licence?

    (8.4) No person shall respond to a contact that is made using the Internet for the purpose of facilitating a designated offence involving a child.
    Which makes telling a paedophile to get help an offense. On the upside, this could cut down on some of the vigilantism.
  3. Re:The Bible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If I am mistaken, please enlighten me and show me exactly where explicit violence targeting women (i.e. beating, raping, torture, etc) is promoted in The Bible.

    "Suppose a man marries a woman,
    and says, "I married this woman;
    but when I lay with her, I did not
    find evidence of her virginity." ...
    If, this charge is true, that evidence
    of the young woman's virginity was
    not found, then they shall bring the
    young woman out to the entrance
    of her father's house and the men
    of her town shall stone her to death."
    Deut 22:13-21