Current: Founding Partner, Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips Policy Advisors
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Adjunct, University of Lethbridge
Former: AB NDP MLA & Minister of Environment, Parks & Climate Change
Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦
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Banning social media for kids - great idea from Olds. Costs little. Not really enforceable, if the Australian case study is any guide.
The kids are generally using this tech as messaging. To talk to their peers. Olds are often suspicious of teenagers talking to each other.
Don’t get me wrong…🧵
Canada’s AI and online harms strategies will be in the news over the next few days of the G7.
I recommend following @alexpanetta.bsky.social for a delightfully-informed Canadian tech-journo perspective.
His Substack is also worthwhile.
#cdnpoli
And what’s more, absolutely no one wants to think about the state’s responsibility to build spaces for play, belonging, art, creativity, dance, poetry (which is what hip hop is, and I’m reliably informed the kids enjoy it), and meaningful social/emotional supports and skills. For kids or anyone else
Do I think the govt’s current strategy will do it? I don’t. And I don’t see the fortitude to stand up to the oligarchs. It’s just not the vibe right now.
Sam Altman literally just cried and got off the hook for Tumbler Ridge. Ain’t nobody doing anything serious about the algo. 🧵
There is a problem with algo rabbit holes and the content we find there. Eating disorders, social comparison, violent misogyny, etc
Solving that would take a steel rod up the spine of govts like Cda and Aus, to follow the EU and go further. Obvi leaving USA behind. 🧵
Screens and infinite scroll are definitely poison. There is no doubt the tech giants have dropped strychnine in the well of human interaction.
But Olds should probably ask themselves if the kids are learning their blank stare in to the abyss of vids and YouTube because their parents have been…🧵
