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Online harms bill coming next week, with focus on kids, not censorship, Trudeau promises

‘Kids are vulnerable online to hatred, to violence, to being bullied to seeing and being affected by terrible things online,’ the Prime Minister says

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising that his government’s upcoming bill to legislate against online harms will focus on making the internet safer for minors, while not censoring it for the rest of Canadians. Online safety and technology experts have for months been pressuring the governing Liberals to present a plan, warning that Canadian children are currently less protected than kids living in the United Kingdom, the European Union and Australia, where such laws already exist. Sam Andrey, managing director of a think tank at Toronto Metropolitan University that tracks online harms in Canada, said in a recent interview that such an official could help guide Canadians on how to reach social-media giants.

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