From Xtra Ca: http://dailyxtra.com/canada/news/conservative-mp-calls-porn-firewall?market=206
Published Wed, Nov 20, 2013
Porn, you’ve got an enemy in Joy Smith.
The outspoken MP for Winnipeg’s Kildonan–St Paul riding, known as one of the more socially conservative members of the Harper government, earned her stripes as a moral campaigner in an early-morning press conference Nov 20 on Parliament Hill.
Smith was joined by Gail Dines, a self-described anti-porn activist who infamously launched a lawsuit against BDSM website kink.com, arguing that it violated the United Nations Convention Against Torture.
Together they made the case that pornography is “grooming” the youth of Canada — leading to sexual abuse, child exploitation and human trafficking.
“We need to connect the dots,” Smith said.
“In this massive fight against child exploitation, human trafficking and the sexualization of our children, porn is the mass groomer and driver of demand.”
The two are campaigning to get the federal government to implement a factory-default firewall that would block any form of adult material, unless the credit-card holder for the internet service disables it.
While the two didn’t propose much in terms of policy, the filter aside, they did call on the country to have a serious conversation about limiting and regulating pornography.
Throughout the press conference, Smith and Dines linked pornography to human trafficking. When Xtra asked how she came to that connection, Smith explained that “the objective of a trafficker is to make a heck of a lot of money.
“The porn industry is much more lucrative, let’s put it that way. So it really goes together. Once a victim is groomed, they seem to think this is normal, that there’s nothing wrong with it. Unfortunately, they end up being sick, harmed, they die. There’s very bad things that happen to them. They don’t hear about that when it first starts.”
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