An Act to enact the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Justice Canada’s Charter Statement on Bill C-34
The Charter Statement will be posted when it becomes available.
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Canadian Heritage’s Backgrounder on Bill C-34
The Digital Safety Act would establish new safety requirements for social media services and AI chatbot services.
Backgrounder:
Online Age Verification Poses Serious Dangers: What are our alternatives?
In the name of protecting children online, systems for age verification create dangerous new forms of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion.
Bill C-34’s Social Media Ban for under 16s is Unconstitutional
Why the courts might, but shouldn’t, permit it.
Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, Explained
Bill C-34 is the Liberal government’s latest attempt to regulate speech online, or as they put it, to prevent “harmful” speech.
CCLA warns against risks to freedom of expression and privacy posed by Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act
The bill raises significant civil liberties concerns, including through the limitless powers it grants the government and a new digital safety regulator.
