Here's a link on the news for those out of the loop

Not happy, age verification is a cover to reduce anonymity on the internet. Its literally hellen lovejoy screaming "won't someone think of the children"

There are ways of using cryptography to make it guaranteed to be totally private. But secure methods like this haven't actually been ever used by any governments, as far as I can tell. They opt instead for the privacy-invading face scans or ID verification or something like that

Its still overly invasive. Its more secure for me to not send any information as an adult than to send something cryptographically

I think there's no one as motivated as a 10 yr old who wants to access something he's not allowed to access. But I also agree with Kinew that its time to do something and saying 'kids are going to find a workaround' is giving up before we've even tried. It will indeed give parents (who should know better) the backing to say 'no you cant be on TikTok for 12 hours a day, its rotting your brain'. Because it is.

No plan just popular words. Dude is an animal irl.

Fair enough, though I do think there social media needs to be regulated in some capacity. There seems to be a lot of pushback against age verification here. That's fine, but we should try to offer up alternatives. Right now public support is really high for age verification in Canada (about 70% according to a recent poll iirc) so I think doing nothing is just not politically sustainable. Politicians are going to respond to this public sentiment with regulation, so we should try to direct them in the right direction, towards whatever type of regulation the people feel comfortable with

I agree overall, but they need to regulate the companies, not the citizens

Parents already have this backing or ability. Take responsibility, setup screen time limits on the child's device, use other parental controls. It's not hard, works wonderfully, just requires parents to actually parent.

Bingo

We can only hope they all refuse to provide their "services" to our province as a reaction.

While you're at it, recycle harder and climate change won't be an issue.

Making it illegal en masse may sever the network effect that makes these platforms appealing to begin with. That's something that no individual parent acting alone can do

True, true. Unfortunately the way that these become illegal is by age-gating and I'm not handing my ID or biometric data to every platform, site or device manufacturer. That's the dirty side of "ban social media for kids" that the corporations don't want you to focus on.

Horrible ideal, it will be used to hunt down political dissidents.