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Ottawa moves to restrict social media for kids under 16 (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 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 1 month 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 1 month 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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