An Act to enact the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Short title: Safe Social Media Act
Sponsor: Marc Miller, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
Proposed changes
Part 1 enacts the Digital Safety Act , whose purpose is, among other things, to promote the safety of persons in Canada, particularly children, reduce harms caused to them as a result of harmful content online and ensure that the operators of regulated social media services, regulated chatbot services and other regulated online services are transparent and accountable with respect to their duties under that Act. That Act, among other things, (a) imposes on the operators of regulated services (i) a duty to act responsibly in respect of the regulated social media services that they operate, including by implementing measures that are adequate to mitigate the risk that users will be exposed to harmful content on the services, by providing tools to users to enable them to block other users and flag harmful content and by labelling synthetic…
Part 2 enacts the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act , which establishes the Digital Safety Commission of Canada, which has powers, duties and functions under the Digital Safety Act . The Part also makes consequential amendments to other Acts.