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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    6 days ago

    Have some of you never seen a single dystopian scifi film???

    ???

    The idea that people on the fediverse would support this blows my mind.

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      The idea that people on the fediverse would support this blows my mind.

      It says most “canadians”, not “most canadians on the fediverse”. I think most of us who are on here are here for the reason that we know social media is basically poison, but that we also support a free and open/anonymous internet too.

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        And yet there seems to be a disproportionate number of users here ready to bend over and take the dry dystopian dick of authority in order to avoid policing their own children.