An Angus Reid survey says three-quarters of more than 4,000 respondents are in favour of a ban like the one in Australia, where youth under 16 are prevented from setting up accounts on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Threads.

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[–] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We'll try literally anything but regulating big tech.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't a ban for kids under 16 also regulating big tech?

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Not directly.

Instead of reigning in big tech with legislation that would make social medias less harmful **for everyone **, politicians make a bullshit law that will infringe on people privacy even more and will be bypassed by any teenager with at least half a functioning brain cell.

[–] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago

To me, it's more regulating the behaviour of people than regulating the developers of intentionally addictive and intentionally poorly-moderated systems.

The big hegemonic tech platforms, as they currently exist, are not just harmful to adolescents, they're harmful to society as a whole.

I also don't enjoy the prospect of how a ban like this might be implemented in terms of age and identity verification, since I expect it's going look like "hand the data brokers even more of your personal data, they pinky-swear they'll only use it to comply with the law".

[–] Teppa@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To accomplish what?

[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

If you're being serious, proper taxation, proper intellectual rights enforcement, age enforcement, appropriate moderation of harmful content, limiting hate speech and promotion of Canadian content / artists similar to other mediums.