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Most Canadians support social media ban for kids under 16: poll (cheknews.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

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.