"It is an everything-all-at-once approach in which nearly every key component...is left to regulations that do not yet exist."
"a social media ban for those <16 is bad policy that will take considerable time to implement & raises serious privacy concerns that will affect tens of millions of Cdns"
Mike Ananny
Here’s my initial post on Digital Safety bill: government is taking a kitchen sink approach by throwing everything into Bill C-34 and leaving many key details to future regulations, many to be decided by a Commission that doesn’t exist yet. This will take years.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/ever...
The government tabled Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, earlier today, marking its third attempt at online harms legislation after the failed 2021 consultation and Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act ...