C-506: ISP licensing is back again

On 14 February 2008, Hon.  Karen Redman (Kitchener Centre, Lib.) introduced Bill C-506, the "Internet Child Pornography Prevention Act".  This seems to be the latest incarnation of the same ISP licensing bill that has been coming around periodically for over ten years.  I may go through and do a detailed comparison with previous versions at a later date, but for now, here's a summary of what's in the current one.  Some of my old notes on other ISP licensing bills are in the relevant category on my Web site.  Some of the links in there are broken because of design changes on Parliament's site; these issues have been spread out over a number of years, an eternity in Internet time. [598 words...]