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.
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.
LOL!
It has been known for a long time that social media is harmful for kids. If parents wouldn’t parent properly for the good of their children before, then a toothless law (there would be no way to know children are using the sites) won’t make them parent now.
How would sites know there are children using the services? How would the authorities know to issue fines? The only way these things happen is with some form of ID system.
Yes I’m looking for essentially a half-toothless law with punishment “if reported” like it is for the laws against leaving your child alone. Someone has to report you. If you’re not reported, you aren’t punished. Yet everyone I know complies with very few occasional exceptions, even if all of them think it’s a stupid law. Even half-toothless laws can change the overall situation. All I need is the majority of her peers to have been forbidden social media. I can do the rest. If everyone she knows is on social… it’s my word against the world and while I might be able to pull off argument that sticks, it’ll be difficult, and the next guy might fail.
This shifts responsibility away from the large social media companies, who are the ones doing the harm. It’s like punishing parents for letting kids smoke rather than the cigarette companies for advertising to kids
Completely agree. I just think an attempt to regulate the corpos would result in mandate for age verification by the corpos collecting IDs. There are obviously smarter ways to do such regulation, I just don’t think a Liberal or Consrrvative gov’t would go for such solution. That’s why I’d be okay with shifting responsibility. It’s not what I’d like but I’d tolerate it and it’ll do the job I think.
Fair enough