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    1. SensationalNibbles on

      The freedom side of me hates this. 

      But I also see how the internet corrupts young minds, and feel we may need regulation..

    2. Kaurie_Lorhart on

      I think that kids do need to be protected from social media and AI, but I don’t think things like age-verification is the appropriate way to do it.

      Potentially, I think the best action could be simply making it illegal to offer free services in exchange for advertising revenue (i.e. most social media’s revenue models). Couple that with making it illegal for these companies to collect your information for the purposes of selling it. If you want to use Instagram or whatever, you need to pay.

      This would greatly reduce the amount of kids on there, and add parents greater control over whether kids get on there. It would also help protect Canadian’s privacy by eliminating or reducing the amount of data collected by us for the purposes of ads.

    3. Gimedecash on

      This is a good idea. Make social media and AI age restricted. Kids are too attached to phones. Adults as well but we should focus on kids. They don’t need social media until they are at least 16.

    4. awildstoryteller on

      I will make the same point every time this is proposed:

      Is social media bad for kids?

      Yes.

      Is social media bad for adults?

      Yes.

      Is social media BAD?

      YES.

      Banning it for kids but not for adults doesn’t really make any sense though. The same reasons it is bad for kids are why it is bad for adults- we are not talking about something that affects children differently from adults.

      But there is also the other side:

      Is social media good for kids?

      Yes.

      Is social media good for adults?

      Yes.

      Is social media good?

      Yes.

      Because while we tend to think of the brain rot, we forget the benefits. We forget the line trans kid in rural Ontario connecting with like-minded individuals. We forget the knitter in Edmonton connecting with a knitter in London. And so on.

      Social media is thus good and bad.

      And I would much rather see regulation against the bad than banning the good.

    5. Lifeshardbutnotme on

      I’ll repeat what I’ve said elsewhere. How do we expect to teach kids restraint and moderation if we remove all avenues for practice? We’ve all seen that kid at the birthday party who never gets any sugar, so they eat way too much and throw up everywhere. This won’t go well and I suspect anyone can see how.

    6. SkelatoxMkII on

      Honestly, tying these two things together is a disservice. We’ve already seen, in several countries and services, how difficult and messy it is to age-gate social media. I don’t disagree that it’s harmful to children (and adults), but the method to fix that is likely to be something much more complicated than blocking access, likely in the form of regulations and restrictions on the companies themselves.

      AI, on the other hand, is much simpler. We’re already seeing that it is catastrophically damaging to the minds of children and adults, and it’s much less *necessary* to existence and development in the modern world than social media has become. Not to mention, with how most AI models are already paid (or have a paid version), it would be relatively simple to implement age-gating for those as part of the payment information. Even if it means outlawing free models.

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