Robert Diab

Professor
Thompson Rivers University, Faculty of Law

Robert Diab is a professor in the Faculty of Law at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC. His writing about law and technology has appeared in the McGill Law Journal, Tech Policy Press, the Globe and Mail, and Newsweek. He writes a Substack on privacy, online harms, and expression at: https://robertdiab.substack.com

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Blog May 7, 2026

Would Banning Children from Social Media and AI Be Constitutional?

Probably not, for reasons that point to the limits of what Canada can do here. Recently, governments in Manitoba and Ontario have signaled their support for a ban on social media for children under 16 years of age, and last month, the federal Liberals passed a resolution to this effect at a party convention. Manitoba’s premier Wab Kinew and the national Liberal Party are also keen to ban youth access to “all AI chatbots and other potentially harmful forms of AI interaction.”
Robert Diab
Internet and Social Media