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    Die liberalen Abgeordneten werden heute darüber abstimmen, ob sie Altersbeschränkungen für soziale Medien wünschen

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    1. dws2384 on

      I agree that there should be age restrictions, as there are with many things, but I don’t agree with any method I’ve heard proposed of how it would be verified. Ultimately it should fall to the parents to monitor what their children are doing online.

    2. SasquatchBlumpkins on

      This will definitely go over super well and will absolutely definitely not ever back fire!

    3. CanNeverBeTooHigh on

      why not just teach people to block these things at the network level let the parents handle it

    6. Iphacles on

      Parents could just parent their kids. I’m definitely excited for the inevitable data breaches.

    8. Marmar79 on

      Haha every argument against this is identical to what people said about age restrictions on cigarettes when they were first introduced

    9. TriniumBlade on

      >Taylor Owen, the Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications at McGill University in Montreal, says he’s glad Liberals are debating social media’s societal impact but warns against a permanent ban.

      >“It’s punishing the kids for something that’s our fault. They didn’t cause these problems. The problems are designed into the products they’re using,“ he said.Ban wouldn’t keep kids offline, expert says

      >“It’s signaling that we think these products can never be safe. And we know that’s not the case. The companies are choosing to make them unsafe and we are allowing them to be unsafe by not regulating them.“

      >Owen also said teens will find other ways to access platforms or move to private chats where they could be even more unsafe.

      >Owen, who sits on the government’s expert panel on online safety, has been pushing for Ottawa to establish an independent regulator, which would require risk assessments and public transparency from companies that build special media platforms.

      So far I agree with a lot of what Owen is saying. Especially the fact that he wants to hold the social media platforms responsible for their failings instead of putting on a shabby band-aid in the form of age restrictions.

    10. AcidShAwk on

      The point of this is to ensure your kids can’t become aware of the world around them. To keep them contained. Censorship in all but name. Too much truth out there the government can’t allow them knowing.

    13. Comet439 on

      Instead of banning it we need to educate our kids better in media literacy. I’m in my late 20s and when I was in school social media literacy was still limited as things were still fairly new.

      Kids will use VPNs to get around any ban, they’re going to use social media either way. It’s up to the gov and parents to ensure they know how to use it safely

    14. No-To-Newspeak on

      Here is a wild idea – parents should be the ones deciding and controlling what their kids do on line.  The parents are the ones that control (pay) fir their kid’s phones and computers. We dont need the state being a nanny.

    16. Maximum_Error3083 on

      Don’t disagree that kids shouldn’t be on social media but it should be up to parents to police.

      This just seems like a Trojan horse way of increasing surveillance on everyone by requiring you to link your online activity with your ID through the government. No thanks. I know that the tech companies are already tracking everything but I don’t need or want the state having any of that

    17. SBoots on

      Give everyone one year of social media at the age of 35 so they can see how much better life is without it.

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