🇨🇦 Manitoba's NDP premier admits his social media ban will block teachers from using YouTube in class

Wab Kinew just confirmed his first-in-Canada ban on social media and AI chatbots for kids means no YouTube in classrooms. The justification? Autoplay and recommendation engines are too addictive. Never mind that teachers have relied on YouTube for a decade to supplement lesson plans. This is what happens when paternalist bureaucrats decide they know better than parents and educators—ban first, think later. The federal Liberals are watching closely and considering their own restrictions, because apparently turning Canada into a nanny state wasn't enough under Trudeau.

Meanwhile, one student interviewed read 75 books last year because her parents actually parented instead of outsourcing responsibility to government. Funny how that works. But why empower families when you can expand state control over what kids see, read, and learn. This isn't about protecting children—it's about normalizing top-down digital censorship dressed up as safety.

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