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The Great Canadian Banhammer

I’m sorry… if you’re Canadian, you are not allowed to speak to the rest of the world, including your parents over the internet as we could be arrested for even trying to contact you.

A Supreme Court of Canada ruling has expanded the definition of Internet luring to include anyone having an inappropriate conversation with a child — even if the chats aren’t sexual in nature and the accused never intended to meet the alleged victim. Justice Morris Fish, writing for the Supreme Court, said physical contact is not necessary for Internet luring because some seemingly innocent chats open the door towards a child being victimized. “Those who use their computers to lure children for sexual purposes often groom them online by first gaining their trust through conversations about their home life, their personal interests or other innocuous topics,” he said.

God knows how they’re going to figure out how each and everyone of us is guilty. Deep-packet inspections aren’t going to work as they don’t tell you the age of the perpetrator/victim does it?

What happens if you happen to chat to your own child who happens to be in a different city from the comfort of your own home? Are neighbours now given licenses to spy on and report back to the police on a potential stalker/paedophile in their midst?

If we applied such a law in general, wouldn’t that mean that most of us would be criminals by assumption from birth? Is the justice system in Canada taking the issue too seriously? Seems like the hardliners for child protection have scored one.

Mark Hecht, of Beyond Borders, an organization that lobbies against child exploitation said the Supreme Court decision will protect more children.

“There’s been a very clear message that in fact this is something that is an offence, and as a result, I would think that there will now be more arrests and prosecutions of adults committing these kind of crimes,” he told CTV News Channel.

“If you’re an adult and if you’re having conversations with a child on the Internet, be warned because even if your conversations aren’t sexual and even if your conversations are not for the purpose of meeting a child and committing an offence against a child, what you’re doing is potentially a crime,” he said.

Canada has realized the danger of their own offspring. No one wants to hear a whiney, over-excited, prissy kid squeaming about getting their ‘frag’ on in-game. Time they did something and ban all kids under the age of 13 from playing online-FPSes and MMORPGs.

Credits to Sankaku.