Manitoba verbietet soziale Medien und KI-Chatbots für Jugendliche – eine Premiere in Kanada

*please don’t involve age verification please don’t involve age verification please don’t involve age verification*

I can decidingly say i did not fucking vote for this when i voted for Wab. What the fuck, man?

Kindly explain how you think these companies will simply just go „lol nope“ and not do business in Manitoba. That’s not even getting into the privacy concerns.

So help me god if this costs me my usage of my video game library/accounts.

Wowwww wtf I thought Manitoba was cool

Just a reminder that every single jurisdiction that implements these requires online age verification and they all do it through third party private services that WILL get hacked and leak your personal data everywhere AWSOME Manitoba 

The only form of this that is even remotely acceptable to me is zero proof and I don’t even like it then

Why can’t Wab just wait for the federal government to sit on its hands for 10 more years while we watch this be a massive mess for all the other western countries that want to be surveillance states

I know policies like these are inevitably unpopular with the Reddit crowd, but I’m glad someone is taking action with stricter internet regulations in Canada. It becomes clearer every day just how damaging the effects of unfettered access to social media & generative AI are for our collective free expression and ability to engage/think critically about the world, especially with children. Without proper guardrails, we effectively surrender giant chunks of our lives — including the the intellectual development of our youth — to these large, American tech companies, which have consistently acted in bad faith to harvest our private data, to restructure our attention to create a dependency on them, and to push conspiratorial views and misinformation.

I understand the concerns about privacy, but realistically, very few people nowadays have a digital footprint that can be considered secure or private, and the tradeoff of not acting includes the relinquishment of additional pillars of privacy via the continued accumulation of data by tech giants. On the technology front in general, I feel like the government has long been paralyzed by the possibility of going slightly too far, in the process enabling these private actors to take up more ground and exploit/restrict the public far more than the government ever would. In other words, the spectre of a surveillance state has allowed the rise of surveillance capitalism to proceed unchecked, to the detriment of all of us. This is a good start in slowly shifting technological power back to the public sphere.

Why does it have to be the government? Parents could legitimately use AI to monitor their child’s activity.

Just off the top of my head, since all main social media platforms have AI and track everything if you create an account for your child, you could easily have a daily summary sent to you basd on your child’s activity.

I guess kids will just have to randomly gather in the neighbourhood again because the boomers never had an issue with that…

Kids on social media is not the problem. Social media is the problem. Regulate social media, not the kids. Ban shit like infinite scroll and default algorithmic feeds. Those are the two biggest drives of social media addiction.