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Ottawa moves to restrict social media for kids under 16 (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-34/first-reading

According to the full text, there's no such consideration regarding "traditional" the only thing that I can see that qualifies a "social media" service as "regulated" is the number of users, and that's apparently TBD by some yet to be appointed council.

Fediverse will be hard to enforce compliance, so I don't know what they'll do to try and force age gating on us.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    We will have to see because, like every other technological block in life the kids will find away around it before the adults do.

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

    If only the people writing these bills were as sensible as you. Unfortunately these people believe age gating works. All it'll do is require more personal data to be tracked everywhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I may by too cynical now, but I doubt the authors give a shit that kids will work around it. They are scratching the back of someone and they are getting what they want.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    There's a clip in the CBC article linked in this post, the minister that tabled this bill was asked about age verification's effectiveness and kids getting around it in Australia.

    The response was basically: Just because it doesn't work, doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.. It's a brain dead take.

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