Big Tech Is Profiting Off Your Kids. Tell Doug Ford to Act.

Social media and AI companies have spent billions engineering products designed to maximize the time children spend on screens, and they’ve done it knowing the harm it causes: anxiety, loneliness, and real damage to mental health and learning outcomes. The Ford government has known about this. It has done nothing.

Ontario Greens Deputy Leader Aislinn Clancy, a former school social worker, has introduced the Keeping Our Kids Safe Online Act to change that. The bill would establish an expert working group of parents, youth, educators, and social media specialists to develop a plan to ban social media and AI chatbots in schools, create a curriculum on digital citizenship and online safety, hold tech companies accountable for harms to children, and fund mental health supports for kids. Unplugged Canada, a parent-led national advocacy group, is already calling for exactly this.

The solution is on the table. Doug Ford needs to pass it.

Pass the Keeping Our Kids Safe Online Act to protect children from the harms of social media and AI in schools
Ban social media and AI chatbots in classrooms and create a curriculum on digital citizenship and online safety
Hold technology and social media companies legally accountable for harms to children
Fund children’s mental health organizations to address the impacts of technology on kids

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Social media and AI companies are designing products to maximize the time children spend on screens. The negative impacts on student mental health and learning outcomes are well-documented and growing. Families, educators, and community organizations across Ontario are calling on their government to act. Ontario Greens Deputy Leader Aislinn Clancy has introduced the Keeping Our Kids Safe Online Act, which would establish a working group of parents, youth, education workers, school board members, and social media experts to develop concrete recommendations for the Ministry of Education on how to protect children from online harms. This bill has the support of Unplugged Canada, a parent-led national advocacy group leading the call to protect Canadian children from online harm. Protecting children from corporate exploitation is not a partisan issue. It is the responsibility of the government. We call on your government to: - Pass the Keeping Our Kids Safe Online Act and establish a working group to develop evidence-based recommendations for the Ministry of Education - Develop and implement a plan to ban social media and AI chatbots in Ontario schools - Introduce a school curriculum on digital citizenship, online safety, and AI literacy - Establish measures to hold technology and social media companies accountable for harms to children - Fund and support children’s mental health organizations to address the impacts of technology on kids Ontario’s families are asking you to stand between their children and the companies profiting off their attention. We are calling on you to act.

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