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Taylor Owen on Canada's Conditional Approach to Online Safety | The Globe and Mail

Published: 15 June 2026

June 11, 2026 | Taylor Owen examines Canada's newly tabled Bill C-34, arguing that the legislation goes beyond Australia's blanket under-16 social media ban by offering platforms a pathway to earn young users back if they can prove their products are safe for children. Owen frames the conditional age restriction as "the stick to make platforms design their products with kids' safety in mind" and highlights the bill as the first to bring AI chatbots under Canadian digital safety law.ÌýCiting polling from ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï's Media Ecosystem Observatory that found 84% public support for a design-based approach, Owen argues that "the public is not asking platforms to do better, it is asking the government to force them.

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