Feds move to ban social media for kids under 16: How would it work?
6/10/202639 min
The federal government introduces legislation to make social media safer, which includes requiring platforms to restrict usage by kids under 16 years old. Power & Politics asks Minister of Canadian Culture and Identity Marc Miller how his government will enforce these regulations. The Power Panel weighs in.
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The federal government announces its plan to protect kids from online harms, and that means keeping some kids off of social media. It's Wednesday, June 10th. I'm David Cochran. The Power and Politics Podcast starts now. Well, the federal government has laid out its plan to make social media safer for kids. It's called the Safe Social Media Act, and it aims to regulate social media services and chatbot services. Under this legislation, these platforms will have to meet three core duties, to protect children, to act responsibly, and for social media sites to make certain content inaccessible. That includes an obligation for those sites to implement an age restriction on accounts for children under 16 years old. Now, these new regulations will be enforced by a new digital safety commission. And for more on this,