Pierre Poilievre channels his inner Justin Trudeau with support for freedom-killing anti-porn legislation

Anyone hoping a Conservative government would put a halt to the incessant creep of online censorship, surveillance and controls brought in by big brother — er, I mean, prime minister — Justin Trudeau, is in for a rude awakening.

Asked by reporters this week if the Tories would require adult entertainment websites to implement age-verification systems, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s answer was straight and to the point: “Yes.”

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The Conservatives previously demonstrated their openness to imposing draconian rules on our already over-regulated internet last year, when they sponsored Bill S-210 in the House of Commons, and then joined the regulation-loving NDP and Bloc Québécois in passing it on second reading.

Known as the “protecting young persons from exposure to pornography act,” Bill S-210 would make it an offence, punishable by a fine of up to $500,000, for porn sites to operate without implementing “a prescribed age-verification method.” Exactly what those methods would be is not laid out in the bill, and would be up to government mandarins to figure out.

Poilievre’s office said his party is not in favour of digital IDs. And Conservative MP Karen Vecchio, who sponsored the bill, said that, “There should be no direct collection of identity documentation by the site publisher from the pornographic site, no age estimates based on the user’s web browser history and no processing of biometric data for the purpose of uniquely........

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