Why they would not provide evidence that the steps they propose to fight the "crime" are justified somehow in a well documented statistics of crime? Well, I never ever saw a well documented, publicly available and discussed statistics of that kind.
<br><br>zb.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Meng Cheah</b> <<a href="mailto:meng-D1t3LT1mScs@public.gmane.org">meng-D1t3LT1mScs@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1884/125/">http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1884/125/</a><br><br>"Conservative MP Joy Smith <<a href="http://www.joysmith.ca/">http://www.joysmith.ca/</a>> yesterday
<br>introduced<br><<a href="http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&DocId=2842428#SOB-2010623">http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&DocId=2842428#SOB-2010623
</a>><br>the Clean Internet Act (Bill C-427)<br><<a href="http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Parl=39&Ses=1&Mode=1&Pub=Bill&Doc=C-427_1&File=24#1">http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Parl=39&Ses=1&Mode=1&Pub=Bill&Doc=C-427_1&File=24#1
</a>>.<br>The private member's bill would establish an Internet service provider<br>licensing system to be administered by the CRTC along with "know your<br>subscriber" requirements and content blocking powers.  Just about
<br>everything associated with this bill is (to be charitable) rather odd.<br>Smith introduced it by warning against the use of the Internet to<br>support human trafficking and added that "the bill would address the<br>
fact that child pornography is not okay to put on the Internet<br>throughout our nation," though the Criminal Code already does that.<br><br>The bill itself includes (and I am not making this up):<br><br>    * an ISP licensing system to be administered by the CRTC that is
<br>      defined so broadly that it would seemingly capture anyone offering<br>      a wifi connection<br>    * a "know your subscriber" requirement where ISPs would be required<br>      to deny service to past offenders (though the ISP would escape
<br>      liability if upon learning of an offending customer, it terminated<br>      service and notified the Minister of Industry)<br>    * a new power that would allow the Minister of Industry to order an<br>      ISP to block access to content that promotes violence against
<br>      women, promotes hatred, or contains child pornography.  ISPs that<br>      fail to block face possible jail time for the company's directors<br>      and officers.<br>    * the Minister of Industry can prescribe special powers to
<br>      facilitate searches of electronic data systems (ie. lawful access)"<br><br><br><br><br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: <a href="http://gtalug.org/">http://gtalug.org/</a><br>TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
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