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The Quebec government's controversial new law that allows its provincial gambling agency to order Internet blocking is facing a court challenge.
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association - its membership includes Vidéotron, Rogers Communications Inc., Bell and Telus Corp. - filed a motion with the ­Quebec Superior Court against Bill 74, asking the court to declare unconstitutional the section of the law that gives Loto-Québec the power to compose a list of websites it wants Internet service providers to block.
The federal Telecommunications Act states that unless the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approves otherwise, "a Canadian carrier shall not control the content or influence the meaning or purpose of telecommunications carried by it for the public." It is for this reason that CWTA says the section of the law should be stricken down.
While Bill 74 gives Loto-Québec the power to order Internet Service Providers to block its online competitors, it doesn't specify how they would do this.
The CWTA believes the law would require expensive new infrastructure, as most Canadian ISPs don't have provincial blocking capabilities, and that costs spent on adhering to the law could be passed on to consumers nationally.
The Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, a First Nation located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River across from Montreal, has set out its own concerns with the law.

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Bill 74 has passed almost without notice and will see the government agency in charge of lotteries in the province, Loto-Québec, draw up a list of online gambling sites that they will then send to ISPs.
Incredibly, the ban does not apply to all gambling sites - just those that Loto-Québec doesn't like - and legislators were quite open about the fact that a goal of the law is to increase revenue to the local, officially approved gambling service Espacejeux.
According to its own documents, the law "Would increase the dividend that Loto-Québec pays to the government by $13.5 million in 2016-17 and $27 million a year thereafter."
Officially the idea behind the law is to protect the citizens of Quebec - "Especially young people" - from sites that do not promote "Responsible gaming rules."
A law allowing a government agency to restrict access to specific websites in order to cause direct financial benefit to another website is not the sort of thing that courts look positively on.
The passage of the law was recently raised in the House of Commons of Canada, with one minister pointing out that such a law would violate the country's net neutrality position.

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Summary generated by cruyff8's autosummarizer of http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/26/quebec_passes_website_blocking_law/:

Bill 74 has passed almost without notice (the casino industry being the notable exception) and will see the government agency in charge of lotteries in the province, Loto-Québec, draw up a list of online gambling sites that they will then send to ISPs.Incredibly, the ban does not apply to all gambling sites – just those that Loto-Québec doesn't like – and legislators were quite open about the fact that a goal of the law is to increase revenue to the local, officially approved gambling service Espacejeux.A law allowing a government agency to restrict access to specific websites in order to cause direct financial benefit to another website is not the sort of thing that courts look positively on. The passage of the law was recently raised in the House of Commons of Canada, with one minister pointing out that such a law would violate the country's net neutrality position.

This is an automatic summary, original reduced by 39%.

Bill 74 has passed almost without notice and will see the government agency in charge of lotteries in the province, Loto-Québec, draw up a list of online gambling sites that they will then send to ISPs.
Incredibly, the ban does not apply to all gambling sites - just those that Loto-Québec doesn't like - and legislators were quite open about the fact that a goal of the law is to increase revenue to the local, officially approved gambling service Espacejeux.
According to its own documents, the law "Would increase the dividend that Loto-Québec pays to the government by $13.5 million in 2016-17 and $27 million a year thereafter."
Officially the idea behind the law is to protect the citizens of Quebec - "Especially young people" - from sites that do not promote "Responsible gaming rules."
A law allowing a government agency to restrict access to specific websites in order to cause direct financial benefit to another website is not the sort of thing that courts look positively on.
The passage of the law was recently raised in the House of Commons of Canada, with one minister pointing out that such a law would violate the country's net neutrality position.

Summary Source | FAQ | Theory | Feedback | Top five keywords: law^#1 government^#2 sites^#3 gambling^#4 website^#5
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