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Nah.
@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social most of us are concerned about the downstream privacy impact being much worse than what "harm" that social media has on young people. Not to mention, even then, another pushback to callout is that people much older are also not better off, so how do we address those?
TechHub (techhub.social)
@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social most of us are concerned about the downstream privacy impact being much worse than what "harm" that social media has on young people. Not to mention, even then, another pushback to callout is that people much older are also not better off, so how do we address those?
TechHub (techhub.social)
You pretty much nailed it why I don't like age-based bans on social media.
@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social most of us are concerned about the downstream privacy impact being much worse than what "harm" that social media has on young people. Not to mention, even then, another pushback to callout is that people much older are also not better off, so how do we address those?
TechHub (techhub.social)
I read up on Estonia's Digital ID Infrastructure.
If I were to compare it to British Columbia's (the province that I reside in) BCID system, I'm definitely leaning towards Estonia's model.
Both BCID and Estonia collect the same mounts of PII, but Estonia provides more transparency and control, where as BCID is a lot more opaque.
I'm not entirely against age-based bans, and I'd imagine Estonia would be a lot more competent for rolling out age restrictions.
I just don't have confidence that Canada can pull it off.
And even if we had a competent infrastructure, why 16? When it comes to social media, how "harmful" it is, age doesn't have any bearing.
16 is arbitrary, and if anything, it's just a tool to minimize liability.
It's same mindset of pro-lifers: caring about a human while in the womb (or at least expecting others to care), but throwing all due care out the window once the human is born.
@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social most of us are concerned about the downstream privacy impact being much worse than what "harm" that social media has on young people. Not to mention, even then, another pushback to callout is that people much older are also not better off, so how do we address those?
TechHub (techhub.social)
Yeah, a better wording would have been "must" rather than "should"
Yeah, I proposed that before we ban social media by age, instead, let's have a blanket ban on auto-scrolling videos.
This would probably capture the "harm" that we want the under 16s to be shielded from, but older individuals are not immune from it, so they'd also benefit from the ban.
this is a highly thoughtful response. Thank you.
most of us are concerned about the downstream privacy impact being much worse than what "harm" that social media has on young people.
Not to mention, even then, another pushback to callout is that people much older are also not better off, so how do we address those?
Absolutely!
The Parliament of Estonia is orders of magnitude smarter than whoever is in the Parliament of Canada (including Mark Carney).
"Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says"
Banning kids from social media won’t work, as they “will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media,” Estonian Education Minister Kristina Kallas said.
POLITICO (www.politico.eu)
The fediverse is full of real life superheros.
Let's shed some light on a few:
@dansup - Pixelfed & Loops
@quillmatiq & @snarfed.org - Building https://brid.gy + @anewsocial
@silverpill - Managing FEPs + @mitra
@jesseplusplus - Building @frequency
@jaz - Building @teamtoot + @iftas
@thisismissem - Building https://fires.fedimod.org
@benpate - Building https://emissary.dev
@koen - Building https://procolix.eu
Show em' some 
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(Yes, this is a copy+paste of @dansup's original post)
Previously, for speech-related crimes in Canada, charges needed to be approved by the Attorney General.
Would you support a law that lifts that requirement, and instead let police file charges directly, for speech-related crimes (such as hate speech)?
