This is disappointing. My feeling is that Kinew is jumping on a bandwagon.

But when you're doing something bad, I'm also going to say so.

Much of the goodwill the Manitoba government got from the ban on surveillance pricing, it's throwing out the window on age verification.

It's another thing when laws end up defacto entrenching big tech oligopolies in the name of going after big tech oligopolies.

It's quite sad because the Manitoba provincial government did a good thing on surveillance pricing, but this is a horrible thing.

Then Apple ramped up their release schedule and they touted how many new APIs each release had. They pushed that as a feature in itself.

But, the reality was that you couldn't actually own an app anymore. You could write it and submit it to the app store, but you were only renting it. Every release, the rent came due again and you had to pay with engineering time, to keep it in the store. Apps didn't stay written. They decayed because the operating system wasn't fertile ground. It meant to destroy them.

Only big companies could survive it.

Now designing the data storage part and business processes so that it follows the GDPR principles of data minimisation by design it's a little bit more difficult.

It can be done (with some legal infrastructure), we are doing it for video ID (not age verification) for fraud prevention in our company, but it's nontrivial.
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The problem is no just the coding part of it. The problem is hundreds of small admins keeping sensitive data they can't manage and don't want to manage.

So yes, writing to your MLA as you have done is a good idea. Thanks on behalf of everyone else.

Imagine the admin of every Mastodon server instance having to compile age verification info on individuals or else face heavy fines.

Big tech can easily implement this stuff. It's the little folks who can't.

It would take patience and forethought to come up with a successful solution to the "social" networking paradigm we've allowed to develop for the worst reasons by some really doozie bad actors. Seems to be that FN wisdom relies on patience, long-term thinking and the ability to operate in the midst of unresolved conflict (or so John Ralston Saul informed me in his discussion of FN culture being a third pillar of Canadian culture). I don't know how much of that Kinew can bring into a centuries-old governing canon, especially in the context of a panicked population (at least the part that isn't so diverted and apathetic as to not see the issue), It's not a dance I would want to do, particular given how openly the titans of tech have allied themselves with the advocates of authorianism.

As an autistic person, I was alone and found community online.

What will happens to queer people and neurodivergent kids once this is banned ?

I've been kicked off of FB for reasons unknown and they won't reinstate me unless I upload ID and a video selfie. There's no way I'll ever do that.

If you want to take on big tech, then take on big tech. Don't take on individuals.

Biggest issue is that it's clear very few polis have thought this one through. Locking kids out of online services is not a solution - it's a dereliction of duty that normalizes the algorithms and protects the platforms.

Most shockingly for the NDP it that it's ultimately a free-market solution that gives more power to foreign corporate platforms in terms of collecting and handling Canadians' private data. It puts adults at the mercy of their terms of service. It's little wonder Meta had been asking the US government for this type of regulation for over a decade.

And if all that wasn't enough, not just misuse of private data: A general rule about data is the more you put it out there, the more likely it will be stolen. There is an increased risk of identity theft here also. This is not the same as showing ID before going into a bar - that bar doesn't store your ID in a database.

Sorry for the rant.