Manitoba may be the first province in Canada to ban social media for children, but the details of the proposal aren’t very clear yet. The province’s premier, Wab Kinew, announced during a fundraising event on Saturday that Manitoba will ban social media and AI chatbots for its youth.
“They are doing these terrible things to children in the name of a few likes, in the name of more exposure and in the name of money,” Kinew said on the programme. “Our children will never be for sale and their attention and their childhood should never be taken advantage of.”
Kinew did not elaborate on key details of the ban, such as specific age restrictions, when it would be implemented, nor how it would be enforced. cbc It was reported that Kinyu did not speak to reporters after his comments at the fundraiser.
In addition to Manitoba, the Liberal Party of Canada recently voted in favor of proposals to restrict the use of both social media and AI chatbots to anyone under the age of 16 during the party’s national convention in Montreal. There are many efforts being made to restrict social media across Canada. There have even been attempts to restrict people under the age of 14 from accessing these platforms, which is less stringent than the ban recently implemented in Australia. However, a recent survey by the Molly Rose Foundation has cast some doubt on the effectiveness of such laws, which other countries have also adopted or are currently considering. The survey revealed that most teenagers still have accounts on restricted social media platforms, or have found ways to circumvent the ban.
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