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Do these people know they can just ban their own kids from social media?

Возможно путь к спасению наших детей мы сами?! Если я научу ребёнка с малых лет отличать хорошее и плохое, иметь своё мнение и уметь защищать свою свободу… сможет ли моему ребёнку в 17 лет чужой дядя сказать, что его мама была не права?

I completely agree @silicology.bsky.social Meta, Google, MS, TikTok, Snapchat, X, et al. need to be outlawed and shutdown, but governments won't do it. They're complicit. We need to ban them from our lives at the grassroots level. #FOSS 💜

Just a few months ban can be also very effective.

If so you'll change your mind. These kinds of laws are bad for kids and adults alike, and a gift for the power of tech companies. Kids deserve access to and involvement with their world. Regulate big tech to not push harmful crap that knowingly harms users instead.

The hard part will be enforcing it!

In Australia (the 1st to do so) “Two-thirds of under-16s have remained on social media platforms since the ban came into effect in December. But for those who were kicked off, the change has meant seeing less news than before the ban.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Like every other trendy education initiative, this will not solve the problems it claims. Instead, dismantle the patriarchy.

This sounds great, except how do you enforce it in a way that doesn't compromise private information on unsecured private company servers?

I think you mean to say those without lobbying rights

"well surely there has to be another way" yeah the other way is regulating and holding the platforms responsible for this shit but this government is pretty quick to bow to corporate interests so that's not gonna happen

I am a parent and I wouldn't agree with a ban. I have the tools available to limit and monitor my child's social media use already. Social media taught my child her favourite hobby, crochet, and she relies on it for new ideas for her projects.

If people under 18 had voting rights and politicians had to fear losing millions of votes, maybe they wouldn't have dared to do this, or they would have thought twice about it.

this is the actual intent

Social media companies are all American, therefore the Canadian government has no capacity to “make” them do or be anything, let alone “safer”

Exactly.. bsky.app/profile/sili...

sure. but many of the people complaining about this are the same who responded to every effort to make "streets" safer for kids with "censorship!!!!" sooooooo

There is another way of handling this issue. It's called parenting. Explain to your kids why they shouldn't lose themselves on social media. How to think critically and not be taken in by lies and propaganda. Media literacy should be a required part of education.

And HOW will they stop kids who are far more tech savvy than their parents from getting around the ban? They going to verify ID? Who wants to give personal information of that sort to massive corporations known for abusing access to such information? If Bluesky asks for my license, it can get bent.

Ah yes, the kids who have to show their parents how to use computers will be banned from social media. What could possibly go wrong?

Do you also support the surveillance necessary to enforce this, though?

You're brainless if you do.

The Canadians are so intelligent! Banning cell phones from classrooms would help students focus on their lessons more.

Why? It's impossible for it to be effective and in order to implement it you'll have to identify yourself and submit to constant surveillance of yourself and everyone else accessing the internet. Along with C-22, this is another step towards totalitarianism.

My teen isn't on social media because I,the parent,am responsible for who with and how they interact online.Don't need big brother if you have a mother.However,the tech companies do prey on underage kids and should have stricter regulations and consequences for any dangerous outcomes,Tumbler Ridge.

You're a mark for a surveillance state

You can't ban kids without identifying them. You want identifying info on every child in Canada in the hands of corporations that routinely have data breaches? Do you think the next Jeffrey Epstein won't be able to find a way to buy the data once the breaches happen and the info is put up for sale?

I don't, it is a terrible idea. All it will mean is parents giving kids access on their adult accounts, meaning the kids are far more likely to be exposed to inappropriate content. It is a cop out to avoid having to implement any real reform of, or control of, the big social media platforms.

May I ask if you formed this opinion by actually reading the bill or just going with that you thought was popular according to a poll taken before the bill was even released?

Exactly this.

Phew. Got to protect impressionable minds from U.S. Goop delivered through infamous Cooch.

Privacy-invading age verification is the sting in these stories, though. Any time someone says, "Think of the children!" You should look around and see if they're trying to smuggle in some right wing policy.

But that means parents will have to actually spend time with or speak to their children!? American parents wouldn’t put up with that nonsense.

This is gross. Ending the anonymous internet is a fascist goal.

Good intentions. A road to a certain somewhere is paved with those...

I'm 100% against it, I have an 11 year old daughter who uses Kids Messenger - I control who she talks to. She is safe, talks to me about stuff. This is purely for bad parents and to make voters feel like they are doing something. Better surveillance online of social media, chase down the criminals.

I think it might be well-intentioned, but I don't support. This lays it out really well. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/ever...

Ban for those over 16? I would support that.

to enable such a ban requires a means on every device to accurately identify the age of the user. it's a surveillance scheme

For another perspective, please consider: bsky.app/profile/paul...

Will it require everyone else to yield birthdate data?

Social media is not a good place, even for adults. Instead of banning it, the right approach is to make social media a better place. iambrainstorming.github.io/chapters/phi...

US tech companies will pull out all the stops to block this. We will see.

I’m turning 40 this year; but this bullshit gives me the same feelings of being sent to the principal’s office. Makes me want to smack some power-tripping asshat in the head.

Idiotic “Just Say No” mentality.

Will you still support it when the rate of kids being abused and not getting out for years skyrockets?

The kids aren't the problem.

Many governments are just too scared to deal with the problems of extreme politics, hateful comments and porn and the billionairs who sell it. I'm an adult and I dont want to have to navigate my valuable time, on this earth, through this pernicious crap on apps!

So, nowhere to go in meatspace, nowhere to go in cyberspace. What are kids supposed to do, when not at school, now?

Time to put kids first

Remember when we're taught "Never use your real name on the internet, you don't know who you're talking to"? In this age of fascism, lynchings, police brutality; you don't see why mass surveilance is a bad thing for society? Because this will get people killed.

Good 😊🙏♎

This measure just hands the internet over to big tech. Now no one cam make a small website, unless they have the money to support the age verification infrastructure.

While that is becoming more and more true, it’s still false. Big tech hasn’t taken over the internet. What has happened is that Big Tech has taken over governments. Most of the internet is still open and free if you choose to avoid big tech.