So, mass surveillance for everyone under the guise of "think of the children!" while billionaires are trafficking and raping them.

Really hate the way the internet is moving and the increasing control governments are enforcing and reaching for.

As a millenial I grew up on the internet and I watched my own children navigate an ever evolving internet, especially social media. My home did not allow social media before 16 as I agree there is an age limit. The problem is how do we verify this? Requiring ID for anything on the internet is a slippery slope that politicians seem all too happy to throw us down.

I'm still confused as to how this has anything to do with the population at large. Monitor your fucking kids.

As someone who was a teenager when the internet became a thing, I agree there should be a debate on the topic. Because as I see it, our brains got broken differently after the internet.

There is a healthy way to approach this. There is a minimum age for social media. Buuuut.... I'm not the one who should be saying what that is.

While I agree kids should not have Facebook or IG, I don't really think it's up to the government to decide. Parent your kids.

Oh great it's time for that again. So many things they might try to do to protect the children. So few of them that would not do more harm than good.

Please let this government fall before they fuck it up too badly, and the same to its successor. Delay is all we can do, and hope we can hold them off long enough for the utter stupidity of "age verification" systems to become obvious to even the politicians as its failure in e.g. the UK continues to play out.

Stupid as fuck

Good but unenforceable.

Does this mean going back to a BBS and FidoNet?

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.

Politically this seems like a bad move. I imagine if this passes that it will be a sticking point that the conservatives can fixate on, sort of like the carbon tax

The minimum age for social media should be 105..

Change my mind.