For those 15-year-olds looking to purchase Playboy magazines at a local variety store, the current Canadian law prevents that transaction, limiting the sale of such sexually explicit material to those 18 years of age and older.
It’s that kind of regulation that independent Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne says she just wants to bring to the online world.
“The main goal of this bill is to reproduce in the virtual world what already exists in terms of protecting the children from exposure to porn in real life,” she said in a phone interview.
The proposed law, titled An Act To Restrict Young Persons’ Online Access To Sexually Explicit Material, and sponsored by Miville-Dechêne, would require porn websites to implement some
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