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CRTC says Telecom Act supersedes Quebec’s Bill 74


Bill would force ISPs to censor the InternetIN A LETTER WHICH suspends a CRTC application made by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre which said Quebec’s new web-blocking legislation, Bill 74, is not only unconstitutional, but directly conflicts with the Telecommunications Act, the Commission made it known that it more or less agrees with PIAC.(Ed note: So do we.)Bill 74 requires Quebec-based Internet service providers to block certain gambling websites when told to do so by the province. The Quebec government created the new law because it wants to keep as much gambling as possible with the province’s own Loto-Quebec.As well,...