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Chris Selley: Sorry, parents, government won't save your kids from social media

The online world offers up many horrors, clearly, but the idea that it has been a net negative to humanity is a First World delusion

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Manitoba intends to ban children from using social media and AI chatbots, Premier Wab Kinew announced over the weekend. It’s something you might think was in no way possible for a provincial government to accomplish. Perhaps that’s why British Columbia’s government, also NDP, “paused” a similar effort two years ago in favour of discussions with the companies that run these services.

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“They’re doing these very awful things to kids all in the name of a few likes, all in the name of more engagement, and all in the name of money,” Kinew complained at an NDP fundraiser — “more money for a group of rich tech bros who already have a ton.”

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