Social media ban for kids under consideration in online harms bill: Carney (www.ctvnews.ca)

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[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Even if they somehow implement this in an anonymous way (let's be real, it's the government), it would have to be through government services and a lot of people that use social media, specifically Indigenous people, well, let's just say, do not trust the government. So, if this is implemented in a mature, reasonable way without any involvement from the private sector; you are still excluding a significant portion of the populace just by having the government involved.

This should never have even been brought up. It's idiotic.

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Ideally this would be implemented in a way that had some sort of mathematical guarantee of anonymity, similar to the guarantees you get from encryption. I’m not sure what that looks like but I known people smarter than me have put a thought about this sort of thing (it involves two factor authentication keys or something). If there could be some sort of way to have age verification and also have zero-trust proof of anonymity, that would be ideal in my opinion.