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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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

You can choose not to use Facebook, but you cant choose to not use an operating system.

So? If you're not using Facebook then it's not an issue. If you don't add your age to your OS it's not an issue.

In an ideal implementation you just have the option of setting up a restricted device with their age, and if that's set, then the OS passes it to the browser and it passes it to the site, and if it's a restricted account and it's under age then the site and/or browser doesn't load anything.

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Okay, I guess it wouldnt necessarily be mandatory then. I still worry about the strain it would be on linux developers tho