Could an ID law trigger a Pornhub blackout?
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says his party supports a bill from an independent senator that would require websites to verify users' ages before allowing them to see sexually explicit content \u2014 similar to laws recently passed in the U.K., several E.U. countries and numerous American states. But critics say the law would be disastrous for privacy and civil liberties \u2014 and industry titan Pornhub says it might force them to block Canadians from the site altogether, as they've already done in some of those other jurisdictions.
Sam Cole \u2014 a journalist with 404 Media and the host of Front Burner's upcoming spinoff podcast, The Pornhub Empire: Understood \u2014 explains the controversy around a seemingly simple push to protect children online, and what it could mean for the future of the online porn industry.
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