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.
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