{"id":606300,"date":"2026-04-15T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:59:08","slug":"ottawa-very-seriously-considering-social-media-ban-for-kids-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606300\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa \u2018very seriously\u2019 considering social media ban for kids, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Culture Minister Marc Miller says the government is \u201cvery seriously\u201d considering introducing a social media ban for kids.<\/p>\n<p>At the Liberal convention in Montreal on Saturday, members passed a non-binding resolution calling on the government to set 16 as the minimum age for access to social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Miller says party members have spoken and the government must now study the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>While he says a ban could be an important tool, it\u2019s not a solution to the bigger problem of online harms.<\/p>\n<p>The government plans to introduce an online harms bill and is consulting with an expert advisory group on what the legislation should look like.<\/p>\n<p>Miller says the government is leaving it to that group to weigh in on whether the legislation should also include AI chatbots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Culture Minister Marc Miller says the government is \u201cvery seriously\u201d considering introducing a social media ban&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-606300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}