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Taylor Owen on the Safe Social Media Act and AI Chatbots | CBC Radio

Published: 15 June 2026

June 11, 2026 | Taylor Owen joined CBC's Front Burner to walk through Bill C-34, the newly tabled Safe Social Media Act. Drawing on his work advising the federal panel on online harms and the AI Strategy Task Force, Owen argues that the bill's conditional under-16 restriction reflects a deliberate choice to avoid a permanent ban, since "a ban assumes that these products can never be made safe." He welcomes the creation of an independent regulator with audit powers and fines of up to 3% of global revenue, while flagging that the design of the body itself still needs work to match the technical capacity the task will demand.

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