New Quebec budget forces ISPs to block illegal sites - Page 7 - Poker News

Awesome.

Putting aside online poker for a second, just the idea of a government making ISPs responsible for enforcing their laws doesn't sit well with me.

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09-05-2016 , 10:49 PM

#154

5=2+2

grinder

Join Date: Jan 2014 Posts: 582

BOOM!

http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/crtc-shoo...-law-1.3056441

CRTC = Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.

"The CRTC is an independent public authority in charge of regulating and supervising Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications."

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09-06-2016 , 04:09 AM

#155

Hood

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 6,887

Here's the official letter

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The Commission is of the preliminary view that the Act prohibits the blocking by Canadian carriers of access by end-users to specific websites on the Internet, whether or not this blocking is the result of an ITMP. Consequently, any such blocking is unlawful without prior Commission approval, which would only be given where it would further the telecommunications policy objectives. Accordingly, compliance with other legal or juridical requirements—whether municipal, provincial, or foreign—does not in and of itself justify the blocking of specific websites by Canadian carriers, in the absence of Commission approval under the Act.