Norway plans social media ban for under-16s

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Betray-Julia@reddit

I want this in Canada so bad.

There’s no other way- we cannot out socialize our youth from ignorant hateful bullshit if they have access to the internet.

I mean fuck, we can hardly use schools out socialize ignorant hateful parents from teaching their children the same.

The amount of social problems nations who are doing this arent going to have in 20 years is insane.

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ChosenArabian@reddit

technology companies will be responsible for verifying the age of its users.

Yet another invasion of privacy under the guise of protecting children.

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TimothyMimeslayer@reddit

Its an invasion of my privacy that I have to submit my ID to buy alcohol. How dare the government!

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Yes, then the seller takes your ID and stores it in its database, then he tracks your purchases, creates a profile of you, and in the future if necessary he fucks you over and destroys your life because you said something they didn't agree with.

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TimothyMimeslayer@reddit

That's why we need a third party verification system that doesn't save info and what do you know, its being worked on

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Daysleeper1234@reddit

Sorry, I'm a bit slow, great ideas like this don't come to me. You remember long time ago last year, when EU politicians pushed for an law where they could spy on our phones without an warrant, and one of the stipulations were that politicians' phone wouldn't be spied on. You know how in USA they keep renewing the Patriot act? You know, the act that allows them to spy on you because of terrorists. To protect you, you know?

Now, I should trust that these people will select an ˝independent˝ third party that will develop the system, where for sure they won't store data, they said so. Go, ask them.

Yeah, you intellectuals really want to raise a new generation that will be used to giving IDs to use internet, that can't backfire in any meaningful way.

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Erling01@reddit

This is Norway we're talking about. I'm kind of dissapointed that you'd think that of Norway. This is 100% to protect children...

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GerryAdamsSon@reddit

'ah yes, social democracies are perfect and never at risk of degradation due to capitalism, that's never happened before!'

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ChosenArabian@reddit

I don't know what you're getting at. I know my country is fucked. What else, ice cream is cold?

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QueenVanraen@reddit

Missing an /s? There's already been studies that such a ban doesn't do shit to protect kids.

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ScaryPillow@reddit

Like?

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QueenVanraen@reddit

https://www.techspot.com/news/112049-australia-social-media-ban-kids-mostly-isnt-working.html

Direct link: https://mollyrosefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/MRF_Australia-Social-Media-Ban-Research_Briefing-April-26.pdf

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ScaryPillow@reddit

So you agree bans are good, but just that we need less circumventable bans? Anyways, putting a negative pressure on numbers is still good. 50% of kids circumventing it is still 50% of kids off it.

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Waxburg@reddit

As this progresses and circumventing the restrictions becomes more normalized you're likely going to see that rate go up. The 61% figure they cited for people avoiding the ban who should've been blocked was taken only 4 months after the ban went into place. The moderately tech literate kids who know what a VPN is or the ones who borrowed/"borrowed" their parents ID already don't give a fuck.

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ScaryPillow@reddit

Or the norm of no social media for kids will spread and become more enforced.

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OneMonk@reddit

So you are basing your view entirely on an article by one unsubstantiated opinion piece publisged by the trade magazin for US tech, that overwhelmingly talks positively about social media firms... and one 1k pop survey run by a tiny charity / NGO?

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iDoomfistDVA@reddit

In most cases, social media platforms have failed to detect or seek to remove under 16s accounts;

You make it sound like a ban wouldn't work, but here it's just the platform not enforcing it properly. What are you om about?Xd

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brackfriday_bunduru@reddit

The social media ban is working here. It’s not that effective on older kids who have already been on social media, but it’s working to prevent younger kids from getting on there in the first place. One of my kids is at the precipice now where he would be starting to look at getting an account. The ban is working on his cohort. The effects will keep getting better as kids grow without being experienced to social media in the first place.

It’s also giving parents more authority to keep their kids away from it because the ban provides justification behind a parents decisions.

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Erling01@reddit

I'm not an expert in this topic, so that may be. But if Norway does this, it's definitely because they believe it's actually gonna work, and not for some nefarious reason.

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Besmirching_Badger@reddit

What people don't seem to recognise is also that all these internet 'regulations' actually benefit the massive tech corporations because they're the only ones that can actually comply. Everyone else just has to shut down or block entire territories.

We pretend that these things punish Meta and google, but they actually benefit them, even if it would be easier for them not to have to deal with them. We will end up with a handful of websites we can actually use and that's about it.

The free internet has completely died over the past few years.

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Songolo@reddit

The whole selling point of these companies is that they know you better than even you know. You have been feeding them your data for years. Put those info into doing something decent. Ban Minors.

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BabylonianWeeb@reddit

Yeah Norwegian social media is basically dead after this, It's hard to earn profit from youtube and etc because of small number of people who speak Norwegian and this basically kills it.

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TSMKFail@reddit

The most successful Trackmania YouTuber/Streamer is literally Norwegian.

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SkinnyThotie@reddit

wirtual only streams in english

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JangoDarkSaber@reddit

Womp womp

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wiiferru666@reddit

What a weak ass Argument. Most people are not in it for money and everyone can simply choose to speak or watch in English, something that Norwegians are more than capable of

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Sutraner@reddit

Oh no

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YesNoIDKtbh@reddit

Good.

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neoqueto@reddit

Stop with the age verification psychosis. Stop with the age verification psychosis. Stop with the age verification psychosis. Stop with the age verification psychosis. Stop with the age verification psychosis. It affects everyone. I am entitled to keep my age private. The system will be broken.

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handsoapdispenser@reddit

The evidence that social media is flimsy. The definition of the phrase "social media" is nebulous. The evidence for bans having a net benefit is non-existent.

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jacobstx@reddit

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

What we can say is the detrimental effect social media has on developing brains.

So let's start by toning that down.

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handsoapdispenser@reddit

we can say is the detrimental effect social media has on developing brains

My point is, I don't think we can. I've seen a lot of conflicting reports. And I can't even guess at how sound the methodology they use it. Typical reddit use is really not comparable to Instagram or snapchat or YouTube. And what about just peer to peer digital communication like texting or whatsapp or discord? Are stopping bullying? Disinformation? Are we stopping negative influencers?They all have podcasts. Is that social media?

This stuff is all seems to be rotting the brains of old people much more acutely than young people.

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pepis@reddit

"Won't somebody think of the children!". Then proceed to take away your online freedom of speech. The EU has attempted this ad infinitum. Even in a perfect world, the data leak implication is massive. Think of what China, Russia, North Korea can do with that data...

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