An Angus Reid survey says three-quarters of more than 4,000 respondents are in favour of a ban like the one in Australia, where youth under 16 are prevented from setting up accounts on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Threads.

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[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who goes to prison now when a kid is found to be using social media?

And now what counts as social media? Is it only Facebook, or does it include things like WhatsApp, Mastodon, Instagram, Bluesky, Lemmy, a blog or chatroom?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You don't have to false dichotomy it. There's other options than prison. The gov't determines what's social media. There can be diff criteria. The determination can be made by a regulatory body similar to the CRTC that updates what counts as social media now and then.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

gov’t determines what’s social media

No, they are not capable of that. Using the CRTC as an example only exemplifies that.

Is Steam social media? IRC? Github? Kernel.org? This push for age verification is Red White And Blue, USA, red blooded republican agenda and should not be leaking into the rest of civilization. It is another step forward in the war on general computing.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What do you mean they're not capable?

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The Canadian government is absolutely inept in the area of technology. It allows a duopoly to own telecommunications, we have the highest bandwidth fees in all of the western world, service websites have fucking monday to friday hours!?!

They are literally not equipped to make decisions about technology.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I understand. I think our oligopoly situation and its regulatory capture has nothing to do with our gov't ability to create classification of services. It's a systemic failure of a different nature that's definitely pretty horrible. No point trying to convince me otherwise but I do understand your view.

BTW, I do agree that the private corpo age verification bullshit comes from American corporate interests. Which is one of the reasons I DO NOT want age verification in Canada.