{"id":173,"date":"2010-11-15T13:09:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hutchison-management.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2010-11-15T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:10:10","slug":"michael-geist-considers-new-rules-of-the-road-as-lawful-access-legislation-potentially-reshapes-canada%e2%80%99s-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Michael Geist considers new “rules of the road” as lawful access legislation potentially reshapes Canada\u2019s Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lnternet legislation that has been tabled federally, and described so well by Michael Geist in the November 14th, 2010 edition of the Toronto Star, provides important new \u201crules of the road\u201d that will be hotly debated. Michael provides an important service by clearly presenting excellent summaries of important issues in the online world and his recent column is no exception.<\/p>\n

\"Toronto<\/a>
\nLawful access legislation would reshape Canada\u2019s Internet<\/a>
\nBy Michael Geist
\nInternet Law Columnist<\/em>
\nThe Toronto Star
\nSunday, November 14, 2010<\/p>\n

As Board Chair of the Kids\u2019 Internet Safety Alliance (KINSA)<\/a>, I can certainly support the legislation, subject to a good debate, as it moves through committee discussions. Among other goals, most of the legislation\u2019s provisions strike at the heart of being able to quickly identify and track those who destroy the lives of our children by luring and\/or exploiting them online while displaying their sick abuse in action. Many companies with vested interests, and some of the general public, will decry the legislation while using \u201cinvasion of privacy\u201d as their screen. But a civilized society needs new \u201crules of the road\u201d to combat the downside of new technologies. We have had these new \u201crules of the road\u201d debates many times before, ever since the development of the printing press and probably before then. I am sure we all remember the cries of \u201cinvasion of privacy\u201d when seat belt rules were introduced … a simple example, but one of many. We test and license our drivers so we know who they are and where they live, another \u201cinvasion of privacy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Like all legislation, this legislation needs effective debate and study, but let\u2019s remember the need to \u201cminimize the downside\u201d as we also celebrate the upside of the Internet and its future evolution. One \u201cdownside\u201d is the rapid growth of today\u2019s estimated one million crime scene images circulating on the Web of children as they are actually being sexually abused. It\u2019s a horrible image to even mention but not as terrible as the inerasable experience being lived by our children. The images will circulate for years on the Internet while the abuse will forever change the lives of the abused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lnternet legislation that has been tabled federally, and described so well by Michael Geist in the November 14th, 2010 edition of the Toronto Star, provides important new \u201crules of the road\u201d that will be hotly debated. Michael provides an important service by clearly presenting excellent summaries of important issues in the online world and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}