Em 23h ago

The horror of Age Verification is
arriving in Canada 🚨🇨🇦

Contact your federal MP and the office of the Prime Minister this week to tell them you strongly oppose the privacy-destroying and inefficient measure.

The time to push back is NOW: https://globalnews.ca/news/11797286/liberal-party-adopts-motion-social-media-ban-kids/

'Prime Minister Mark Carney said last month that the idea “merits an open and considered debate in Canada,” although he does not have a settled view on it yet and said there were good points on both sides.'

Share educational resources with them on the dangers of Age Verification: https://www.eff.org/age

We do NOT want this nightmare in Canada. Fight back for your privacy rights! ✊🔒

#AgeVerification #Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Canada #CanPoli #CndPol

Liberal party adopts motion to ban kids under 16 from social media

Federal Liberals voted in favour of setting 16 as the age of majority for Canadians to be able to use social media accounts.

Global News
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@Em0nM4stodon

Quebec MP Rachel Bendayan, who presented the idea to her caucus and championed it at the convention, said <strike>prolonged</strike> <bold>any</b> social media use can be harmful to the mental health of <strike>young</strike> Canadians.

There, fixed that for ya.

Apr 12 at 6:07pmWeb
Show threadEm 21h ago
@barbra Indeed. The solution is to require platforms to be safer, less addictive, and more transparent for everyone. A ban for teens solves nothing once they reach 17 years old.
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@Em0nM4stodon

Doesn't affect me. I am here as an experiment, because I like Vivaldi's "our browser will never have AI" stance.

Don't post anywhere else, so any requirement that I "prove I'm an adult" anywhere and I'm gone. I had created a discord account thinking I would use it for MSFS (not the piece of crap MSFS2024) and x-plane. Never used it, deleted it the day they made noises about needing to upload government D to a 3rd party "verification service" that already had data leaks.

I can live without posting anywhere except my own websites. And I won't be doing age verification. "Take me to court." If Fakebook's and Google's AI is so powerful, why aren't they using it to get rid of the scammers on their own platforms (the answer is obvious - it's all a scam).

Maroon isn't immune to scammers, grifters, people who get off being white knights for others who can defend themselves, blatant commercial advertising promoting crap, etc. And of course, not being in the US, I won't apply any US laws.

It's a shame, but I'm ambivalent about the fediverse. It may not be possible to keep bad actors out as it grows.