Liberal members vote in favour of age restrictions for social media, AI chatbots (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] we_all_live_in_a_capital_i@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is also writing about this. The only way to prove age is to prove identity. Everyone's. How do I use SocMed without having to prove my age too? When I walk into a bar, no one takes my name or copies my ID and stores it in a system. It is also right-wing governments that (usually) push this, because they want to crush free speech. They want to chill opposition and to know who is criticizing them.

[-] runsmooth@kopitalk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Canadians are being subjected to a new round of psychological operations on this very issue, and the Liberals are being lobbied to hell and back on the subject given how the news is pushing this.

We're not new to the issue either. In Calgary the public reaction to a mall's directory and map kiosk allegedly tracking age and gender data of people walking by was largely negative. American interests are trying to massage this back into the public consciousness.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4355444/chinook-mall-calgary-facial-recognition-technology/