This strikes me as right. The bill has many features of both the 'good' and 'bad' of the UK Online Safety Act, *plus* things like the blatantly unconstitutional under 16 ban.
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
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.
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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 ...