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What do you guys think of Wab Kinew's plan to introduce age verification for social media? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/manitoba@lemmy.ca
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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I think there's no one as motivated as a 10 yr old who wants to access something he's not allowed to access. But I also agree with Kinew that its time to do something and saying 'kids are going to find a workaround' is giving up before we've even tried. It will indeed give parents (who should know better) the backing to say 'no you cant be on TikTok for 12 hours a day, its rotting your brain'. Because it is.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Parents already have this backing or ability. Take responsibility, setup screen time limits on the child's device, use other parental controls. It's not hard, works wonderfully, just requires parents to actually parent.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Making it illegal en masse may sever the network effect that makes these platforms appealing to begin with. That's something that no individual parent acting alone can do

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    True, true. Unfortunately the way that these become illegal is by age-gating and I'm not handing my ID or biometric data to every platform, site or device manufacturer. That's the dirty side of "ban social media for kids" that the corporations don't want you to focus on.

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