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This enactment provides for the licensing of Internet service
providers by the C.R.T.C on conditions to be set by the Minister of
Industry by regulation. It also requires service providers' cooperation
to minimize the use of the Internet for the publication or proliferation
of material that advocates, promotes or incites violence against women
or hatred against an identifiable group or is child pornography or
facilitates a sexual offence involving a child.
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Anyone who uses the Internet to facilitate any of these purposes or
possesses such material obtained from the Internet is guilty of an
offence.
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Service providers may be required to block access to identified
portions of the Internet that advocate, promote or incite violence against
women or hatred against an identifiable group, carry child pornography
or facilitate a sexual offence involving a child or offer access to such
material.
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The Minister of Industry is authorized to make agreements with
provinces to assist in achieving the purposes of the Act. Special powers
under search warrants may be prescribed by the Minister to facilitate
electronic searches.
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A consequential amendment to section 319 of the Criminal Code
(public incitement of hatred) ensures that there is no doubt that
communication by placing material on the Internet is communication
for the purposes of that section.
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