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    Laut Minister erwägt Ottawa „sehr ernsthaft“ ein Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder unter 16 Jahren

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    2. AkraticAntiAscetic on

      I’m going to have to hand over my ID to every platform who wants it because the government wants to make digital heroin illegal but only for under 16s.

      >“I do think it could be an important layer, but it has to be seen as that and not as the answer to everything. Online harms don’t end as soon as you turn 15 or 16 or 17,” he said.

      At least to Marc Miller’s credit he seems to understand a ban is one thing and it is dangerous regardless of age.

    5. BlazeOfGlory72 on

      I’m fine with this in theory, but in practice it sounds like a nightmare. This policy wouldn’t be enforceable without forcing some form of identification to be presented to access certain cites, which is just yet one more step in governments/corporations trying to control the last bastion of free speech.

    8. Standard_Program7042 on

      Personally I’m more worried about the over 70 group. My dad forwards me AI videos all the time thinking there real.

    11. ZardozSama on

      Ok. How to you suggest this be enforced?

      First, what consitutes social media? I assume most people will name Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, and Twitter / X. What about youtube and reddit? What about BBEdit forums? Comment sections on news sites?

      Next, blocking under age users from the internet entirely is probably a non starter, so how the hell will you keep them off a social media site? It is already pretty hard to keep an under age user off a porn site that is not pay walled.

      I do not think trying to ban children from accessing the internet is viable. You might be able to prevent kids and young teens from creating a social media profile, but that would require a way to confirm that the profile belongs to an under age user. And what happens if the profile is not removed?

      And a final edge case is young celebrities. Some musicians and actors are very young. Justin Bieber was 15 years old. The band Babymetal’s first song came out when the lead singer was 13 and the backup singers were 11. I do not think any new young performer will be able to release an album without using social media to promote it.

      I am not entirely dismissing the intent of the law, but I seriously question the logistics of implementing and enforcing it.

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    13. dewgdewgdewg on

      So over the span of 6 years, the government has gone from telling kids to do all of their socialization online to none.

    15. Few_Replacement_5864 on

      I’m sure they won’t find a way around this at all within a day or two

    16. Raptorpicklezz on

      No idea why they would do this without letting Australia try it out first and see how it works.

    17. ThicccThunder on

      I love the idea of living in a nanny state because people refuse to parent their children /s

    18. BodhingJay on

      we gotta have something ready to replace it with.. like a basketball.. or they gonna kill us

    20. GroovyGhouly on

      Maybe we should ban kids from social media. Personally I don’t see how this is remotely enforceable, but whatever. But if we’re banning anyone from social media, we should probably add over 65-year-olds to the list. The number of boomers, some in my own family, I have seen radicalized and lose all touch with reality by social media is insane.

    21. Loan_Wolfie on

      How do they implement it?

      I’m in my 50s. If I’m required to give Meta, Musk, etc my driver’s license, bye bye social media, which wouldn’t be the worst thing.

      0 chance those sociopaths are getting a copy of my driver’s license.

    22. Troubled202 on

      Let’s face it, the big tech oligarchs couldn’t care less about our kids. All they see is dollar signs and our children suffer the consequences. Ban social media for children!

    25. IceNo1666 on

      Barely any real news on these sites anyway. It’s all just distractions and fake AI bullshit.

    26. mightyanonymaus on

      Forgive me if I’m wrong here, but shouldn’t this be the job of a parent to monitor their child’s use of the internet and social media and not the government?

    28. teebles22 on

      Here’s my pitch:

      There’ll have to be some sort of government sponsored identity provider. Much like you have now, login with Google, login with Facebook etc. But instead you’ll probably login with a hash key (long string of text that’s very random) that should be fairly easy to get, still anonymous to a certain degree.

      Like say for example if you go to your local Service <Province>, show your government ID, and get a hash key generated for you. All it does, is evidence that you are over 16+. The hash key doesn’t have any information about you, doesn’t even have to link to you as a person outside of that confirmation you’re old enough. Websites you’re trying to access, as part of the verification process on account creation, require you to fill in this hash key and select what governing body (the governing body needs to be registered). The website will call the governing body with the hash key and validate this person is 16+.

      Verification for a hash can only be used once per site, tied to your website account. So even if minors who find your hash, can’t login with that same hash.

      And there should be a page to allow you to check what sites have been used to verify age.

      I mean it would be annoying for adults to have to go get this hash key, but at least it’s relatively anonymous.

    29. TheSirWolffe on

      State playing the role of the parent, yet again. Will we ever learn our lesson ?

    30. Jman1a on

      Nanny state nonsense. Also what sites? Are they just going to play wack-a-mole every time something new pops up?

    32. BrokeBMWkid on

      Just ban the whole thing at this point. It’s done unrepairable damage to our youth and it’s being used as a tool to mislead the elderly. We can just text each other, there is no need for broadcasting your life.

    34. Thereal_Stormm006 on

      Canada’s Youth Facing Uncertain Future

      Liberal Govt: The Best We Could Do Is A Social Media Ban

    35. ifuaguyugetsauced on

      Kids aren’t stupid they’ll find a way to circumvent the issue. This is a push to get more data on Canadians. 

    36. OkWelcome3389 on

      Tech companies are lobbying for this as it let’s them collect absurd amounts of user data.

    39. Expensive_Lettuce239 on

      And how do they plan to do this? The device they’re on doesn’t know the age of the user. Are the apps going to ask the age question? And every kid is automatically going to say they are 17? Maybe it’s just me but I don’t see how this is going to work.

    40. AIMustAlignToMeFirst on

      This is gonna end up just being AI face ID for everyone and not preventing any kids from being on the internet.

      If parents don’t want kids on the internet they can put on parental controls.

    41. VividGiraffe on

      If you’re an adult and think this wouldn’t apply to you, it does.

      You’ll need to prove you’re over 16, which means uploading your ID to some cloud service that tells social media companies your age. And then sells the rest of your personal ID info to the highest bidder.

      So good job everyone.

    45. iz296 on

      Canada the next Turkiye?

      Tune in to see how this season of ‚A Liberal Canada‘ will end!

    46. pastelfemby on

      Yeah lets all send our IDs to some barely-canadian shell corp with overseas staff, minimal security, and who’ll sell their data to the highest foreign bidding agencies. Surely nothing bad will come of this.

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