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Manitoba recently joined a growing list of places that have implemented, or are considering social media bans for people under the age of 16. Are bans a silver bullet?
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Front Burner35:26Are teen social media bans a silver bullet?
Australia was the first country to adopt a ban. Canada’s federal government is signaling that something is coming from them soon. A recent Angus Reid poll found 75 per cent of Canadians support the idea.
But even among those who acknowledge the harm social media causes for young people, the answer is not so clear cut.
We’re joined by Taylor Owen, the Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications at McGill University. He’s a part of the federal government’s expert advisory group on online safety and on its AI strategy taskforce. He makes the argument that a ban isn’t a silver bullet and that we need to focus on making social media safer for everyone.
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