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Most Canadians support social media ban for kids under 16: poll (cheknews.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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An Angus Reid survey says three-quarters of more than 4,000 respondents are in favour of a ban like the one in Australia, where youth under 16 are prevented from setting up accounts on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Threads.

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[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

The issue is how it will be enacted. It will invariably require transmitting personally identifying information across a network and for it to be stored somewhere for processing. Even if this is done as safely as possible with government systems, there is always the risk of data theft and exposure as well as excluding people that don't trust the government at all, like pretty much every Indigenous person I've ever met.

It as well provides the government with a system and store of information that could be used as tool of oppression.

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Simple home router Whitelist enacted through a parental control setting.

Completely "local" and no personal information is given to a third party website.

Now the question is could we create a job/field were the persons responsible would curates and classifies each website? They could classify based on ages, genres and other useful tags.

What could we call these creators of information?

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, in an ideal world, you just implement it at the OS level. You don't need to send PII off device ever.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Why does it matter if it's a checkbox when you sign up or a number held by your OS? Leave the OS alone and hold parents accountable for the actions of their children.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lmao, and how many children do you have, oh wise one?

I mean, with that logic, why do we ban cigarettes from kids too? Why not just let cigarette companies advertise and sell cigarettes to kids, and just "hold parents accountable for the actions of their children"?

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Boot lick harder

My servers should not be legally required to verify my age. My TV should not be legally required to verify my age. Parents should be legally required to monitor and filter their children's access to the internet.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lmao, the guy defending using Instagram is calling others a bootlicker?

Please social media companies, fuck everyone harder, we can't possibly have a TV maker have the ability to lock it down with parental controls, society would collapse if that were to happen!

Oh wait, literally every single TV sold in the past 25 years has had that.