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There’s a clip in the CBC article linked in this post, the minister that tabled this bill was asked about age verification’s effectiveness and kids getting around it in Australia.

The response was basically: Just because it doesn’t work, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it… It’s a brain dead take.

If only the people writing these bills were as sensible as you. Unfortunately these people believe age gating works. All it’ll do is require more personal data to be tracked everywhere.

For sure. Super vague. There are discussions happening on the mastodon side of this. And this bill is terrible.

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-34/first-reading

According to the full text, there’s no such consideration regarding “traditional” the only thing that I can see that qualifies a “social media” service as “regulated” is the number of users, and that’s apparently TBD by some yet to be appointed council.

Fediverse will be hard to enforce compliance, so I don’t know what they’ll do to try and force age gating on us.

I’m really curious how this will affect the fediverse. Will lemmy.ca need to add age gating? :/

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