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Canada wants to join the age verification bandwagon and censor the internet with Bill C-34
(ca.news.yahoo.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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A group of tech lords, in alliance with national security types, along with reactionary protect the kids tools.
The same people that were pushing chatcontrol. I asked the same thing and someone linked a long article from Balkan Insights that went into it, I can't find the article myself. I would like to reread it as well.
Also, Ashton Kutchner, the actor, is spearheading a lot of this with some front group of protecting kids, bankrolled by tech. For your pleasure is a short clip about Ashton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNlY9ZqwmBI