▲ 133 ▼ 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 103 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (2 children) Isn't a ban for kids under 16 also regulating big tech? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago To me, it's more regulating the behaviour of people than regulating the developers of intentionally addictive and intentionally poorly-moderated systems. The big hegemonic tech platforms, as they currently exist, are not just harmful to adolescents, they're harmful to society as a whole. I also don't enjoy the prospect of how a ban like this might be implemented in terms of age and identity verification, since I expect it's going look like "hand the data brokers even more of your personal data, they pinky-swear they'll only use it to comply with the law". permalink fedilink source parent [–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago Not directly. Instead of reigning in big tech with legislation that would make social medias less harmful **for everyone **, politicians make a bullshit law that will infringe on people privacy even more and will be bypassed by any teenager with at least half a functioning brain cell. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago To me, it's more regulating the behaviour of people than regulating the developers of intentionally addictive and intentionally poorly-moderated systems. The big hegemonic tech platforms, as they currently exist, are not just harmful to adolescents, they're harmful to society as a whole. I also don't enjoy the prospect of how a ban like this might be implemented in terms of age and identity verification, since I expect it's going look like "hand the data brokers even more of your personal data, they pinky-swear they'll only use it to comply with the law". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago Not directly. Instead of reigning in big tech with legislation that would make social medias less harmful **for everyone **, politicians make a bullshit law that will infringe on people privacy even more and will be bypassed by any teenager with at least half a functioning brain cell. permalink fedilink source parent