While there should be “debate” in Canada about a social media ban for children, Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has not made up his own mind on the issue yet.
Even if they somehow implement this in an anonymous way (let’s be real, it’s the government), it would have to be through government services and a lot of people that use social media, specifically Indigenous people, well, let’s just say, do not trust the government. So, if this is implemented in a mature, reasonable way without any involvement from the private sector; you are still excluding a significant portion of the populace just by having the government involved.
This should never have even been brought up. It’s idiotic.
Ideally this would be implemented in a way that had some sort of mathematical guarantee of anonymity, similar to the guarantees you get from encryption. I’m not sure what that looks like but I known people smarter than me have put a thought about this sort of thing (it involves two factor authentication keys or something). If there could be some sort of way to have age verification and also have zero-trust proof of anonymity, that would be ideal in my opinion.
Even if they somehow implement this in an anonymous way (let’s be real, it’s the government), it would have to be through government services and a lot of people that use social media, specifically Indigenous people, well, let’s just say, do not trust the government. So, if this is implemented in a mature, reasonable way without any involvement from the private sector; you are still excluding a significant portion of the populace just by having the government involved.
This should never have even been brought up. It’s idiotic.
Ideally this would be implemented in a way that had some sort of mathematical guarantee of anonymity, similar to the guarantees you get from encryption. I’m not sure what that looks like but I known people smarter than me have put a thought about this sort of thing (it involves two factor authentication keys or something). If there could be some sort of way to have age verification and also have zero-trust proof of anonymity, that would be ideal in my opinion.